BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Challenge of the Traditional Collection and the possibilities of "\;Tribing and Untribing the Archive: the Material Record of the T hukela-Mzimkulu region\, c. 1750-1910” - Nessa Leibhammer Curator\, Trad itional Southern African Art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery DTSTART:20121105T170000Z DTEND:20121105T180000Z UID:TALK40577@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Judith Weik DESCRIPTION:This collaborative project between the Archive and Public Cult ure Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town (APC) and the Johan nesburg Art Gallery\, is the pilot of a larger project Ethnologised Pasts and their Archival Futures\, launched by the APC. The project is concerned with museum and art gallery displays\, and colonial and apartheid knowled ge activities. It aims to draw attention to the archival capacities and ch allenges of ethnographic material and to enable ongoing recuperation of pa sts denied by colonialism and apartheid. The pilot takes as its focus the material culture of Thukela-Mzimkulu region\, c. 1750 – 1910. It calls into being an expanded archive for that period\, and accounts for its hist orical disavowal. \n\nNessa Leibhammer is the curator of the Traditional S outhern African Art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and an Honorary Resear ch Fellow of the APC at the University of Cape Town. She completed a trans -disciplinary Masters of Arts degree at the University of the Witwatersran d in Pre-colonial Studies with a particular focus on the southern African subcontinent. Many of her professional initiatives have entailed cross-dis ciplinary interrogations involving art\, material culture studies\, archae ology\, ethnography and history. She has a particular interest in visual c ulture and how knowledge is represented. \n LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge CB3 9DT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR