Changes [Sep 16, 2008]
Past Events and Pro...
Archaeologies of Memory Workshop
Archaeologies of memory in the global south:
uncovering and displaying the remembered and unremembered past
(a seminar for the rising generation of scholars, curators, and activists)
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This International Summer Institute Pilot Program is funded by the Office
of the Vice President for International Affairs
Monday, June 9th to Thursday, June 12th
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Nightingale-Brown House, 357 Benefit Street, Providence, RI
Seminar Schedule
Monday, June 9th
Morning session: 9:30 am
-Donna McFarlane
Tony Bogues
Telling Our Story - The Making of Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey
Readings:
Web links: http://www.garveylibertyhall.com/home.htm
Afternoon session: 2:00 pm
Nick Shepherd: Archaeology and Memory after Apartheid
Siona Campbell: Apertures and Archives: Binaries and the Bushmen
Readings:
Saying
The Politics of Archaeology in Africa .pdf
shepherd - Archaeology Dreaming.pdf
shepherd - State of the Dicsipline.pdf
Lalu, P. 2006. The Virtual stampede for Africa: digitisation, postcoloniality and archives of the liberation struggles on Southern Africa. University of the Western Cape. Cape Town Premesh_Lalu.pdf
Harris, B.1998. 'Photography in colonial discourse: the making of 'the other' in Southern Africa, c 1850 – 1950. in Hayes,P. Silvester,J, Hartmann,W. (eds).The Colonising Camera. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. pg 20 – 24.
Hayes,P. Silvester,J. Hartmann, W.1998.'Photography, history and memory' in The Colonising Camera .Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. pg 2-9.
Web links:
Tuesday, June 10th
Morning session: 9:30 am
Emmanuel Asare and Ray Silverman: (Re)Locating Memory and History in a Ghanaian Community
Readings:
kreps_2008.pdf kreamer_2004.pdf benson&mccaskie_2004.pdf
Web links:
Afternoon session: 2:00 pm
Howard Chan
Community Museum Project, Hong Kong
Michael Townsend and Deborah Abramson
Flower Blossoming Action
Readings: craftsman_book.pdf cmp_leaflet_0706.pdf
Web links: http://www.hkcmp.org/cmp/ http://gallery.mac.com/tapeart#100318&bgcolor=black&view=grid
Wednesday, June 11th
Fieldtrip to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Readings: Imagining the Nation with House Odds- Representing American Indian Identity at Mashantucket.pdf
Web links: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/
Thursday, June 12th
Morning session: 9:30 am
Tomas Barrientos and Karen Pereira
The Role of Archaeology in Postwar Multicultural Developments in Guatemala, Central America
Readings:
Web links:
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