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14 July 2025|Conference

Panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt” accepted to the 9th Annual MSA conference in Prague

We are delighted to announce that our panel “Visual Scepticism and an Aesthetic of Doubt in Reframing Difficult Heritage – Fostering Resilience or Enforcing Instability?” has been accepted to the 9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association, "Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability", in Prague, Czech Republic...

Photo: University of York; Mark Woodward

9 April 2025|Presentation

"'Invasive Alien Species': Imaginations of Plant Agency and Migration in Iván Argote's Descanso" at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference

As part of the panel “More-than-human worlds on the move: Reframing and exploring migration from a multispecies perspective in art” Johanna Spanke will present her paper “'Invasive Alien Species': Imaginations of Plant Agency and Migration in Iván Argote's Descanso” at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference...

Photo: University of Amsterdam/ Concordia University

8 March 2025|Presentation

“Talking Images: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization?” at “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past”

At the workshop “Postcolonial Hauntologies. Art in the Present – Absence of the Past” held by the University of Amsterdam (NL) and the Concordia University, Montreal (CA) Winona Pawelzik will present her paper “Talking Images: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization? Emeka Ogboh’s Work “At the Threshold” (2021)” in the...

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28 November 2024|Announcement

Johanna Spanke receives gold medal at the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis

Johanna Spanke has been awarded the gold medal in the category of photo theory at the Deutsche Fotobuchpreis (German Photobook Prize) for her dissertation "Photomurals: Fotografische Wandbilder in transnationalen Aushandlungsprozessen zwischen Mexiko und den USA" (Photomurals: Photographic Murals in Transnational Processes...

Photo: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg / CC-BY-SA 4.0

15 November 2024|Presentation

Kritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der Karikatur um 1900

Magdalena Tonia Füllenbach presents her paper "Kritik und Affirmation von Gewalt: Inszenierungen deutscher Kolonialskandale in der Karikatur um 1900" as part of the conference of the research center "Hamburg's (Post-)Colonial Legacy" in the panel "(Anti)koloniale Inszenierung von Geschlecht" at the University of Hamburg...

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14 November 2024|Presentation

"At Home with Columbus" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in Johannesburg

At the conference “Creating a Disturbance: Interventions into Historical Monuments and Statues” at the University of Johannesburg (14-16 November, 2024), Johanna Spanke presents the paper “At home with Columbus: Tatzu Nishi's domestication of historical monuments and the inversion of public space”.

Date: 2024, November...

Front view of Victor Brecheret’s sculpture Monumento às Bandeiras (1953), in São Paulo, Brazil

Photo: Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz Mariordo, Creative Commons

14 November 2024|Presentation

“Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors" - Conference "Creating a Disturbance" in Johannesburg

Carla Guimaraes Hermann presents her paper “Painting Bandeirantes in Baniwa colors: Denilson Baniwa’s Brasil Terra Indígena (2020) in São Paulo, Brazil” at the conference “Creating a Disturbance: Interventions into Historical Monuments and Statues” at the University of Johannesburg (14-16 November, 2024).

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8 November 2024|Presentation

"Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization" at Ninth Graduate Student Colloquium

Winona Pawelzik presents her paper "Utopian Histories and the Ethnological Museum: Photography as a Tool of Decolonization in Emeka Ogboh’s Work 'At the Threshold' (2021) at GRASSI, Leipzig“ as part of the The Developing Room's Ninth Graduate Student Colloquium "The Futures of Photography" at the Center for Cultural...

Photo: Margit Kern

7 November 2024|Announcement

Field Trip to "Sachsenhain“ and Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Together with Prof. Dr. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn from Leibniz University Hannover, several team members visited the “Sachsenhain”, a meeting place designed for the SS in Verden (Aller) in 1934, and the memorial site of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to examine landscape and spatial designs of the National...

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