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Seminar: 'Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism: Inhabiting the Colonial City'
Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism: Inhabiting the Colonial City, a seminar supported by The Institute for Transnational Studies in Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester.
Friday 30 April 2010, 2.30 to 4.30 pm. The University of Manchester, University Place, Oxford Road, Room 6.207.
Speakers: Stefan Boness (IPON Photography, Berlin); Roberta Cremoncini (Director, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London); Derek Duncan (Professor of Italian Cultural Studies, University of Bristol).
Open to all, free admission.
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Stefan Boness (IPON Photography, Berlin) presents his reportage series Frozen City and Asmarinos, exploring Fascist colonial architecture of the 1930s and its legacies in contemporary Asmara, Eritrea.
Roberta Cremoncini (Director, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London) considers how artworks such as those presented by Stefan Boness might be displayed in the museum context, drawing on case studies of previous exhibitions.
Derek Duncan (Professor of Italian Cultural Studies, University of Bristol) responds to the work of Stefan Boness with a discussion of cultural memory and amnesia.
For directions please visit: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/ University Place is building no. 37 on the Campus Map.
For further information, please contact: francesca.billiani@manchester.ac.uk or lara.pucci@nottingham.ac.uk
Event details
- Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism: Inhabiting the Colonial City
- Location: U. of Manchester
- Date: Friday, 30th April 2010
Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism: Inhabiting the Colonial City, a seminar supported by The Institute for Transnational Studies in Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester.
Friday 30 April 2010, 2.30 to 4.30 pm. The University of Manchester, University Place, Oxford Road, Room 6.207.