Conference: representing Africa in British museums

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Gallery 20

Celebrating the re-opening of RAMM'S World Cultures galleries.

Free one-day conference in partnership with the University of Exeter.

Objects from the African continent were initially acquired by traders, political officers, explorers, scholars, and missionaries. How well does this material represent Africa? We explore this question in a conference of multi-disciplinary talks, with internationally-renowned curators and academics of African collections in Britain.

Speakers listed in alphabetical order:

Exploring donors, uncovering collections, and transforming displays: the Africa collection at RAMM - Mr Tony Eccles (Curator of Ethnography, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter)

Representing (South) Africa in the British Museum: the art of many nations - Dr John Giblin (Head of Africa Section, Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, British Museum)

Representing African Islam in British Museums - Professor Timothy Insoll (Al-Qasimi Chair in African and Islamic Archaeology, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Rearrangements and Re-evaluations of the African Collection at Liverpool’s World Museum, 1895 to 2018 - Dr Zachary Kingdon (Curator, Africa Collections, World Museum, Liverpool)

Kente Trade: African Choices and British Museums - Dr Malika Kraamer (Independent Curator and Researcher)

The Rehabilitation of the Fetish - Professor John Mack (The Sainsbury Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia)

Manchester Museum’s Cross Disciplinary Approach to Representing Africa - Mr Stephen Welsh and Dr Campbell Price (Curators of Living Cultures and Egypt and Sudan, The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester)

Re-collecting the Missionary Road: Excavating Collections from a South African Contact Zone - Dr Chris Wingfield (Senior Curator [Archaeology], Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

African Collections in the National Museum of Scotland - Dr Sarah Worden (Senior Curator, African collections, Department of World cultures, National Museums Scotland)

Putting the ethnography back into ethnography galleries: Redisplaying African collections in the new World gallery at the Horniman - Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp (Curator of Anthropology, Horniman Museum, London)

In association with the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and part of

RAMM's 150th anniversary celebrations.

Tickets are available online or from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum reception in person or by phone using a credit or debit card on 01392 265858 during opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.