Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object I
| Dates: | 15 March 2024 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 11:30 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Professor Santanu Das |
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The first workshop of Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Experience, Writing, and Emotion in Times of Conflict'.
Each of three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to develop thinking on the still little considered area of emotion-centred histories of the imperial archive, exploring how feeling, sense, and emotion are archived - both because of and despite colonial bureaucratic processes. The workshops are further bound together by a collective interest in the colonial object – loot, diplomatic gifts, the bureaucratic file, and the museum collection – as a way to consider the emotional reactions and justifications afforded the practices that took objects away from their originating community and owners. The workshops will begin to consider how emotions played a central role in shaping imperial practice i.e., how feeling influenced actions. Beyond the historical context the workshops will also address the ongoing emotional effect archival indifference has today by asking the question, how do we return emotion to an archive through the ways it is researched, re-narrated, and acted upon?
This event forms part of CIDRAL's 2023-2024 Archives series of events.
Speaker
Professor Santanu Das
Organisation: University of Oxford
Travel and Contact Information
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A7
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
