Upcoming Conference: Interpretational Practices in the Postcolonial Era: Transcultural Perspectives in Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa
I am really excited about the upcoming conference of my UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education, which will bring together scholars from so many countries! The conference will build upon the achievements of the Exploring Visual Cultures Project (https://www.explore-vc.org/en/), which is at the same time an archive on die diversity of visual cultures and a place to discuss different ways and cultures of seeing. Please find our conference website for further information: https://www.ucace.fau.de/vcm-2021/ Abstract: Visual Culture not only represents the world we live(d) in, it also has a great impact on how we remember and construct our pasts, how we perceive our presents and how we see and imagine our futures. In times of worldwide globalization the questions become prevalent of who is „speaking“ through visual artefacts, who can make themselves be heard/seen and who can take part in doing memory while at the same time creating a…
