CANCELLED - BISA 2020 conference

Decolonising memory and history: countering coloniality in museums and the arts

19 Jun 2020, 16:15

1h 30m

Swan Room

Panel Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Description

This panel brings together papers that focus on the role of museums and the arts in shaping public history and memory. How is colonialism articulated through these cultural practices and institutions? And how have subaltern voices with anticolonial/ decolonising visions of resistance emerged within and against them?

Subcontributions

• De-colonising memory and connecting histories: translating trans-scalar violence through the arts
• Public History and IR: Engaging with ‘Counter-memories’ in South Asia
• Public History and International Relations: Mapping the Future through Archiving the Past
• Re-imagining world politics through art: decolonial resistances inside the ethnographic museum
• Museums as Fields of Politics: IR and Politics of Visual Representation in India and Sri Lanka