Workshop 3: Exhibition-Making, Museography, and Textual/Visual Interactions
Co-organized by Josephine McDonagh and Laetitia Zecchini, and sponsored by CNRS, University of Chicago International Institute of Research in Paris (IIRP), and University of Chicago Nicholson Center for British Studies, this workshop took place at the John W. Boyer Center in Paris on September 18-19.
How are colonial and postcolonial print ephemera, media and literatures staged and displayed, put to use, consumed and repurposed/revalued/re-curated in museums and exhibition spaces today, beyond their simple documentary function/status – and to what means / ends? This workshop examined the practices, forms and uses of colonial/postcolonial print from the Global South in the colonial exhibitions and world fairs of the turn of the 19th century, up to our postcolonial/decolonial present, and explored how the interaction of textual and visual registers are an integral part of exhibition-making and postcolonial print cultures.
For more information about the panels and participants, please go here.
Workshop 2: Print Cultures Before the Postcolonial Era
Organized by Josephine McDonagh (UChicago) at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, January 18-19 2024.
Focusing on the notion of “miscellany” this workshop explored the aesthetic and political dimensions of “cut and paste”, assemblage and other miscellany-related practices and technologies as forms of cultural expression and means of resistance in colonial situations and their impact in post-colonial contexts. To see the full program, please click here.
Workshop 1: Cultures de l’imprimé postcoloniales et archives : pratiques et terrains, méthodes et enjeux
Organized by Laetitia Zecchini at the Ecole Normale supérieure in Paris, June 28-29, 2023.
For more information, please consult the concept note and the final report.