Name: The Future of Africa-Based Curatorial Practice Keynote - Ciraj Rassool
Start: 2022-06-23T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-06-23T10:00:00-04:00
Location: Harvard Art Museums

The Future of Africa-Based Curatorial Practice Keynote - Ciraj Rassool

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The Future of Africa-Based Curatorial Practice Workshop Keynote with Ciraj Rassool, Professor at University of the Western Cape

Harvard Art Museums

The Future of Africa-Based Curatorial Practice

Join us on June 23 - 24, 2022 for a two-day workshop on The Future of Africa-Based Curatorial Practice at Harvard University.

Ciraj Rassool is senior professor of History at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), where he also directs the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies. Among his latest publications are “Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts” (Ann Arbor, 2017), written with Leslie Witz and Gary Minkley; and “Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation” (published as Kronos: Southern African Histories, 44, 2018), co-edited with Nicky Rousseau and Riedwaan Moosage. At UWC, he directs the Remaking Societies, Remaking Persons Supranational Forum. He is one of the principal investigators of the international collaborative research projects, Action for Restitution to Africa, and Re-connecting “Objects”: Epistemic Plurality and Transformative Practices in and Beyond Museums. He is a member of the new South African National Advisory Board for Restitution and Repatriation. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the study of the Von Luschan Collection at the State Museums of Berlin and of the Advisory Board of the Alexander Ecker Collection at Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany. He served on the boards of the District Six Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, the South African Heritage Resources Agency and the National Heritage Council. He also previously chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM) and was a member of the High Level Advisory Committee on Museums for UNESCO. More Information: https://africa.harvard.edu/event/future-africa-based-curatorial-practice-keynote-ciraj-rassool

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