PhotoCLEC

Curating Photographs in the Museum Space.

Submitted by ejmedwards on Wed, 03/08/2011 - 12:35
Event Date: 
Tue, 25/10/2011 - 11:30 - 17:30
Venue: 
PHRC De Montfort University
Location: 
Leicester UK
External Website Address: 

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/aad/photographic-history-research-centre/n...

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 A one-day workshop on curating photographs in museums, aimed at museum professionals and students of photographic history. The day will look at questions of curatorship in multicultural and cross-cultural environments, display strategies, and approaches to collections history. 

Museums, Photographs and the Colonial Past

Submitted by ejmedwards on Wed, 03/08/2011 - 12:23
Event Date: 
Thu, 12/01/2012 - 14:00 - Fri, 13/01/2012 - 18:30
Venue: 
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Location: 
Oxford
External Website Address: 

http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/aad/photographic-history-research-centre/n...

                      

Research Seminar: Dr. Matt Mead "Post-imperial Pathologies: colonial legacies and photography in the museum"

Submitted by ejmedwards on Tue, 26/04/2011 - 00:34
Event Date: 
Wed, 15/06/2011 - 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: 
University of the Arts London (LCC), Elephant and Castle, London
Location: 
Media Block 4th Floor 401A,

Seminar:'Excavating Experience: Photographs and Difficult Histories' (Elizabeth Edwards)

Submitted by ejmedwards on Sun, 30/01/2011 - 15:52
Event Date: 
Thu, 03/02/2011 - 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: 
CRASSH. University of Cambridge
Location: 
Cambridge
External Website Address: 

http://www.memoryatwar.org/events

Dr. Pamela Pattynama

Submitted by ejmedwards on Wed, 08/12/2010 - 13:11
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Title: 
Research Officer
Institution: 
VU University Amsterdam
E-mail: 
P.Pattynama@uva.nl
Telephone: 
+31 (0) 20 6227543
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 Pamela Pattynama is Research Officer on PhotoCLEC IP “Indies Images of the Colonial Everyday in a Multi-ethnic Postcolonial Society”. She is seconded from her post of Indisch Huis Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Culture History, in which she specialises in the Dutch East Indies.

Research Interests: 

 Research Interests: Cultural memory, post-colonial literature, colonial film and the representation of gender and mixed race.

Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums

Submitted by ejmedwards on Wed, 08/12/2010 - 13:00
Event Date: 
Tue, 23/11/2010 - 12:00
Venue: 
Studentsenteret
Location: 
University of Bergen
Event File: 
application/pdf icon_photoclec_program_bergen.pdf

Dr Hilde Nielssen

Submitted by ejmedwards on Mon, 06/12/2010 - 16:33
Project Role: 

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Title: 
Research Officer
Institution: 
LLE, University of Bergen
Address: 
N-5007 Parkvei 20 Bergen Norway
E-mail: 
Hilde.Nielssen@lle.uib.no
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 PhotoCLEC Research Officer on the Norwegian project "Foreign and Home Images of Unacknowledged Colonial Legacies", and  Researcher, Institute for Linguistic. Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen.  She undertook her PhD studies in Madagascar, working on ritual theory, ritual aesthetics and spirit possession. 

Research Interests: 

Ritual theory, ritual aesthetics, spirit possession in Madagascar, anthropological museology and material culture, missionary ethnography and the Nordic culture of colonialism.

Publications: 

 2011. Ritual Imagination. Tromba possession among the Betsimisaraka of Eastern Madagascar. Studies of Religion in Africa. Brill Publications. (Forthcoming).


2008. Til Jordens ender. Fortellinger om norsk misjon (To the ends of the world. Stories on the Norwegian mission). Editor and Introduction to Bergen: Bergen Museum Publications.

2008.  “Kom over og hjelp oss (Come and help us)”, Nielssen, Hilde & Karina Hestad Skeie, in Til Jordens ender. Fortellinger om norsk misjon. Bergen: Bergen Museum Publications.

2008. ”Jeg tillader mig at sende en gasserbylt" (I permit myself to send a bundle of Malagasy things)” in Til Jordens ender. Fortellinger om norsk misjon. Bergen: Bergen Museum Publications.

2007. ”Til Jordens Ender. Om hvordan verden ble brakt til Norge og omvendt på etnografiske utstillinger i misjonsregi.” (To the ends of the world: How the world was brought to Norway and vice versa through mission exhibitions.Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift (Norwegian Anthropological Review) 18(3-4): 196-216.


2007. “From Norway to the Ends of the World: Missionary Contributions to Norwegian Images of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’.” In Encountering Foreign Worlds – Experiences at Home and Abroad. Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press.   

Dr. Matthew Mead

Submitted by ejmedwards on Mon, 06/12/2010 - 16:16
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Title: 
Research Officer.
Institution: 
De Montfort University, Leicester
Address: 
Photographic History Research Centre, Portland Building, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH
Country: 
United Kingdom
E-mail: 
mmead@dmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 
+44 (0)116 257 7670
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Research Interests: 

 Post-colonial literature, British multi-cultural memory practices

Publications: 

 2009. “Empire Windrush: The cultural memory of an imaginary arrival.”

The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 45.2: 137-149.

2007. “Empire Windrush: Cultural memory and archival disturbance.”

Moveable Type 3: 112-28.

<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/graduate/issue/3/pdf/ mead.pdf>.

2006. Rev. of Imagining London, by John Clement Ball, Postcolonial

London, by John Mcleod and Black British Literature, by Mark Stein.

Journal of Postcolonial Writing 42.1: 119-21.

2006. “Relay and Translation: An anglophone reads Patrick Chamoiseau’s

Texaco.”  Kunapipi 28.1: 47-58.

2005. Rev. of Guyana and the Caribbean: Reviews, Essays and

Interviews, by Frank Birbalsingh. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 41.1:

125-27.

Professor Sigrid Lien

Submitted by ejmedwards on Mon, 06/12/2010 - 16:13
Project Role: 

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Title: 
IP Leader
Institution: 
LLE, University of Bergen
Address: 
N-5007 Parkvei 20 Bergen Norway
E-mail: 
Sigrid.Lien@lle.uib.no
Telephone: 
+47 55583201
External Website Address: 

http://folk.uib.no/hkhsi/

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Research Interests: 

 Photography, modern and contemporary art, visual culture, cultural theory, museums, archives, exhibitions.

Publications: 

 2009. ‘From the margins to canonisation- Photography in the Norwegian

art arena 1971-2005’, in: Gothenburg Studies in Art and Architecture,

Acta Universitatis Gothenburgensis. 

2009. Lengselens bilder. Fotografiet i norsk emigrasjonshistorie. Oslo: Spartacus Forlag.

2008. Kunsten å lese bilder, with Peter Larsen. Oslo: Spartacus Forlag.

2008. ”Derfor skriver jeg bok: Kunsten å lese bilder”, with Peter Larsen.
Bedre skole, nr. 4.

2007. Norsk fotohistorie. Frå daguerreotypi til digitalisering, with Peter

Larsen. Oslo: Det norske Samlaget

2007.‘Varm visuell retorikk i kald krig: Noen kunsthistoriske betraktninger

omkring etterkrigstidens russiske plakatkunst’, i: La oss hauste den store

avlinga. Russiske plakatar 1945-65. Hå gamle prestegård: Hå gamle

prestegard/ Skule- og kulturetaten i Hå.

2005. ”The Wild Duck and Other Stories”, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, vol 74,

no 2, p.82-94.

2002. “The Aesthetics of Sports Photography”, Nordicom Review, 23 (1-2)

September, Gøteborg, pp.215-235.

2001. ’Not the proper way, but many proper ways to think about

pictures’-  Intensjonalitet og historisk rekonstruksjon i Michael Baxandall’s

Patterns of Intention”, Kunst og Kultur, Nr.2, p.104-119.

Professor Susan Legêne

Submitted by ejmedwards on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 00:57
Project Role: 

0

Title: 
IP Leader
Institution: 
VU University Amsterdam
Address: 
Faculty of Arts - History Department De Boelelaan 1105 (12A-29) 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands
E-mail: 
s.legene@let.vu.nl
External Website Address: 

htpps://www.let.vu.nl/en/staff/s.legene

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 Susan Legêne is professor of Political History at VU University, Faculty of Arts/History Department. Prior to this, she was head of the Curatorial Department of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. 

Research Interests: 

 Colonialism and processes of decolonization in relationship to nation building and (transnational) citizenship, both in Europe and in the once colonial countries.

Publications: 

2008. Collection policies and approaches   (2008-   2012) of the Tropenmuseum, With Koos van Brakel Amsterdam KIT Publishers (Bulletin 381).

 2009. 'Dwinegeri -- Multiculturalism  and the Colonial past (or: The Cultural Borders of Being Dutch).' In: Benjamin Kaplan, Marybeth Carlson, Laura Cruz (eds.), Boundaries and their Meanings in the  History of the Netherlands. Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 223--242.

2008. ‘Flatirons and the Folds of History: On Archives, Cultural Heritage and Colonial Legacies’ In Travelling Heritages: New Perspectives. Askant, pp 47-64.

2007. 'Mission Interrupted: Gender, History and   the Colonial Canon,' with Berteke Waaldijk,. In: M. Grever and S. Stuurman (eds), Beyond the Canon. History  for the Twenty-first Century. New York:Palgrave Macmillan,pp. 188-204. 

2007. ‘Enlightenment, Empathy, Retreat: The Cultural Heritage of the Ethische Politiek’, in P. ter Keurs (ed.), Colonial Collections Revisited. (Leiden CNWS Publications), 22. 220-245. (Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Leiden no. 36).

2007. From India to Suriname: A journey into the future narrated by two photograph albums (1913-1930). Allahabad: Manav Vikas Sangrahalaya – GB Pant Institute, [Bidesia Occasional papers Series no. 2).

2004. ‘Photographic Playing Cards. Teaching the Dutch Colonialism.’ In: E.  Edwards and J.Hart (eds.), Photographs Objects Histories. On the  Materiality of Images. London: Routledge, pp. 96-112.

2003. ‘De mythe van een etnisch homogene nationale identiteit Kanttekeningen bij de verwerking van

het koloniale verleden in de Nederlandse geschiedenis’ in  Tijdschrft voor Geschiedenis 116(4), pp.

553-560.

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