Entangled Histories: Art and Archives between Algeria and France, c.1945 to the Present Study Day Seminar
This study day seminar brings five scholars together whose work is at the centre of recent investigations into the entangled histories of modern art, architecture and archives between Algeria and France. Presentations by the speakers will highlight and interrogate the significant role of artistic production, architecture, archives and networks in the construction of narratives of modern and contemporary art practices (both collective and individual), national identity, cultural exchange, memory and history, and the discipline of art history. The seminar aims to contribute to the remapping of the diverse aspects of cultural production and reception that were, and are today, a crucial and often contested component of late colonial, decolonial and post-colonial relations between Algeria, the Maghreb, and France.
Speakers:
- Prof Sheila Crane, Architectural History, Department of Art, University of Virginia.
- Dr Katarzyna Falęcka, Art History, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University.
- Dr Emile Goudal, Centre d'étude des arts contemporains, Université de Lille.
- Dr Lydia Haddag.
- Constance Sjödin, Oxford University.
Contact: Prof Natalie Adamson, School of Art History, [email protected]
Funded by the School of Art History, the Centre for French History and Culture, the Centre for Art and Politics, and the Centre for Contemporary Art.