[Anthropgrad] FW: Conference: Visual Cultures and Colonialism

[Melinda Hinkson]

Dear Colleagues,

A reminder that the VISUAL CULTURES AND COLONIALISM conference will take
place between 1-3 May at the Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne.

Registration forms, the program, abstracts and other information are all
available at:

http://arts.monash.edu.au/cais/conference/index.php

A growing body of postcolonial research has established the importance
of visual imagery in creating and popularizing ideas about race and
cultural difference. Visual representation of Indigenous peoples
circulated from local to transnational contexts, participating in
colonial networks of global exchange and defining relations of power.
One strand of analysis has revealed the complicity of Western scopic
regimes and imperialism, tracing the ways that visual cultures express
the colonizers' expanionist gaze. Another seeks to emphasise the role of
Indigenous peoples within this relationship, identifying culturally
distinct visual traditions and the reformulation of new media such as
photography and museum exhibitions. Descendant re-valuation of the
colonial archive is inverting colonial spectacle, producing new meanings
through re-contextualisation of these images. This conference aims to
bring together research on visual cultures and indigeneity that attends
to local specificity as well as the global circuits of visual discourse,
illuminating both colonial processes and attempts at decolonisation.

PLEASE REGISTER TO BOOK YOUR PLACE

Thank you,

Jane Lydon and Liz Conor (Convenors)

-- 
Dr Jane Lydon
Research Fellow
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
Monash University
Clayton VIC 3800
AUSTRALIA

T: 03-9905 1658
F: 03-9902 0321

http://arts.monash.edu.au/cais/research/st-jl.html



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