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Workshop: Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism
Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism, a half-day workshop supported by the Institute for Transnational Studies in Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester.
13:00-18:00, Friday 19 March, Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester
Open to all, free admission
This half-day workshop will bring together academics and curators to explore some ideas, approaches and problems relating to the production and subsequent display of cultural artefacts associated Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes), Rachel Knight (Imperial War Museum North), Gregory Maertz (St John’s College, New York), Hans Ottomeyer (Deutsches Historisches Museum), Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford).with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Speakers include: Charles Burdett (University of Bristol),
Programme
13:00-13:15 Registration (entrance foyer)
13:15-13:30 Welcome (lecture theatre)
13:30-15:30 Session 1
Exhibiting Fascism
Gregory Maertz (St. John’s College, New York) will present his remarkable discovery of an unknown collection of modernist Nazi war art. He will also discuss the political issues he has encountered in trying to stage an exhibition of these works in the United States.
Hans Ottomeyer (Director, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin) and Rachel Knight (Head of Exhibitions, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester) will present short papers addressing some of the issues relating to the exhibition of politically sensitive works.
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break (South Gallery)
16:00-18:00 Session 2
Fascism and Its Images: Charles Burdett, Roger Griffin, and Jeffrey Schnapp in Conversation
These three leading cultural historians of fascism will address a set of six questions concerning our interpretation of the cultural languages of fascism, how it has changed in light of recent academic trends, and what implications this research has for the broader public encounter with fascism and its images.
For further information, please contact: lara.pucci@nottingham.ac.uk or maiken.umbach@manchester.ac.uk
For directions to the venue, please visit: http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/yourvisit/travel/
Event details
- Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism
- Location: Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester
- Date: Friday, 19th March 2010
This half-day workshop will bring together academics and curators to explore some ideas, approaches and problems relating to the production and subsequent display of cultural artefacts associated Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes), Rachel Knight (Imperial War Museum North), Gregory Maertz (St John’s College, New York), Hans Ottomeyer (Deutsches Historisches Museum), Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford).with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Speakers include: Charles Burdett (University of Bristol),