PhotoCLEC

Professor Susan Legêne

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PhotoCLEC

Project Role:

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.

Professor Elizabeth Edwards

Submitted by ejmedwards on Fri, 22/10/2010 - 14:46

PhotoCLEC

Project Role:

Project Leader

Title:

Project Leader

Institution:

De Montfort University, Leicester

Address:

Photographic History Research Centre, Portland Building, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

Country:

United Kingdom

E-mail:

eedwards@dmu.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)116 257 7670

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Research Interests:

Photographs as material culture, the senses and emotion.

Photography and historical imagination in the UK

Cross-cultural perspectives in photographic practice.

Photographs and visual history

Relationship between photography and museum practice.

The history of photograph collections in anthropology.

The relationship between anthropology, photography and history.

Publications:

2009. Photography, Anthropology and History (ed, with C. Morton).Aldershot: Ashgate.

2009. ‘Photography and the material performance of the past’, History and Theory, 48 (4):130-150.

2009. 'Evolving Images: Photography, Race and Popular Darwinism’ in D.Donald & J. Munro (eds)

Endless Forms, Darwin, Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts, New Haven/London, Yale University

Press. pp. 166-193.

2009. ‘Thinking Photography beyond the Visual ?’ in J.Long, A. Noble and E. Welch (eds) Photography:

Theoretical Snapshots. London: Routledge, pp. 31-48.

2008. ‘Entangled Documents: Visualised Histories’ Susan Meiselas In History New York: Steidl/ICP. pp.

330-341.

2008. Visual Sense: The Cultural Reader ed. with K.Bhaumik. Oxford: Berg.

2008. ‘Straightforward and Ordered: Amateur Photographic Surveys and Scientific Aspiration 1885

1914. Photography and Culture 1(2):185-210.

2007.‘Samuel Butler’s Photography: Observation and the Dynamic Past. In James Paradis (ed.

Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 251-286.

2006. Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Material Culture and the Senses. ed. with C.Gosden & R Philips.

Oxford: Berg.

2006. ‘Photographs and the Sound of History’ Visual Anthropology Review 21(1-2):27-46.

2004. Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images, ed. with Janice Hart. London:

Routledge.

2001. Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums. Oxford: Berg.

Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums in Contemporary European Culture (PhotoCLEC)

PhotoCLEC

This project asks “what is the role of the photographic legacy of colonial relations in the identity of a fluid and multi-cultural modern Europe and its global relations?”