A recent TRACES seminar (held on 11 October 2018) presented research on contentious materials in Rome’s forgotten colonial museum collections.
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Thursday 11 October 2018, 14.15 – 16.00, SAI, Seminar room ES 648. UiO, Blindern, Eilert Sundts hus, Moltke Moes vei 31, 0317 Oslo.
Leone Contini (artist, Florence) Loretta Paderni (Museo delle Civiltà, Rome), Rossana di Lella (Museo delle Civiltà, Rome), Arnd Schneider (SAI, University of Oslo)
‘Global TRACES: Art Practice, Ethnography, Contested Heritage’ University of Oslo 7-8 February, 2019
Organizer: Arnd Schneider, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Keynote: Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Chair of Global Art History, University of Birmingham.
Members of the research project TRACES spent five days exchanging field experiences, and discussing challenges and the future of the Project.
The exhibition "Bel Suol d’Amore: The Scattered Colonial Body", by artist Leone Contini and curator Arnd Schneider, will be displayed at the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome from June 24 to July 9.
The participants in the research project TRACES met at a workshop to discuss their progress with special attentiveness to challenges in the field.