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Tatu: Visual Traditions of Eastern Africa
A One-Day Colloquium at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Friday 23 July 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
This colloquium will be the third meeting in an occasional series founded and organized by a loose association of researchers with interests in the visual traditions of Eastern Africa. The first meeting, organized by Hassan Arero at the Horniman Museum, was held in October 2003 under the title ‘East African Visual "Traditions": New Perspectives' and led to the publication of East African Contours:
Reviewing Creativity and Visual Culture (Arero and Kingdon (eds) 2005). The second meeting, organized by Chris Spring and Elsbeth Court, was held in September 2006 at the British Museum (in conjunction with the inaugural conference of AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) held at SOAS) under the title ‘Mbili: Sharing Visual Traditions of Eastern Africa'.
This third meeting has been organized to take advantage of the full reopening of the Pitt Rivers Museum's permanent displays (on 1 May 2010), after ten years of redevelopment work at the Museum and its associated facilities, as well as the opening of two relevant special exhibitions: The Burial of Emperor Haile Selassie: Photographs by Peter Marlow, which opened in the Long Gallery on 22 April, and Wilfred Thesiger in Africa: A Centenary Exhibition, which will open in the Museum's new Special Exhibition Gallery on 4 June 2010 (see Morton and Grover (eds) 2010). Those attending the conference will have the opportunity to see both special exhibitions and the permanent displays.
Given the nature of these two special exhibitions, we would be interested in receiving proposals for papers and presentations relating to visual representations of Eastern Africa in photographs and other media, but offers of papers and presentations on any topic relating to current research into the historic or contemporary visual traditions of the region will be welcome. Offers of papers should be emailed to Jeremy Coote at jeremy.coote@prm.ox.ac.uk by 31 May 2010.
Jeremy Coote (Joint Head of Collections) and Chris Morton (Head of Photograph and Manuscript Collections)
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
References and Links
Arero, Hassan and Zachary Kingdon (eds) 2005. East African Contours:
Reviewing Creativity and Visual Culture (Contributions in Critical Museology and Material Culture), London: The Horniman Museum and Gardens.
Morton, Christopher, and Philip Grover (eds) 2010. Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, London: HarperPress
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