Join us for the first installment in the African Studies Colloquium Series.
Where:
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Research Unit Room
6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC Canada, V6T 1Z2
When:
September 22nd, 2016, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Description:
The presentation will be curated by Nuno Porto, Curator for Africa and Latin America at the Museum of Anthropology, and Associate in the Department of Art History & Department of Anthropology. The presentation is a tentative ethnographic exercise intending to grasp the multiple layers of the ongoing effort to locate, acquire and repatriate to Angola looted African art pieces, promoted by the Luanda-based Sindika Dokolo Foundation. Launched at the end of October 2015, this campaign has successfully recovered three artifacts, contentiously classified as Chokwe, or Angolan, masterpieces. Integral to this process, a new category of Classical African Art is being set forth and, and with it, a major intervention in the international art markets, the call for the redesign of Angola’s national museum network, and the re-writing of recent history.
For more information, contact david.morton@ubc.ca.
To sign up for updates on the colloquium series, join the Google group African Studies Colloquium at UBC. For information about the UBC minor program in African Studies, see www.africanstudies.arts.ubc.ca. For information about the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI), see www.ubcaai.org.
