Workshop: International Research Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures

Come join us for an exciting workshop at the University of Chicago John W Boyer Center in Paris! How are colonial and postcolonial print ephemera, media and literatures staged and displayed, put to use, consumed and repurposed/revalued/re-curated in museums and exhibition spaces today, beyond their simple documentary function/status – and to what means / ends? How is the history of the often predatory and asymmetrical modes of acquisition, collecting and cataloging of African, Asian, Oceanian or American material, and the ethnological gaze that presided over these practices contested or pluralized, recast, reframed and reinvented? And what becomes of the postcolonial/colonial print archive (texts, periodicals, photographs, etc.) when it becomes art? What are the inventive and improvisational curatorial and publishing practices used both by many postcolonial/modernist writers, artists and publishers who work(ed) at the intersection of different arts and artistic practices, and by curators today?

This Workshop of the International Research Network on Postcolonial Print Culture explores these questions and more at this two-day workshop. Please join us and register to attend!