ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network: Postcolonialism: Reframing the Long Nineteenth Century in France

27 Oct 1600 (BST),

This session will explore current research that embraces postcolonial discourse(s) in the context of nineteenth-century France. As an approach founded upon questions of ethics and the dismantling of imperialism, postcolonialism offers a timely and important method of re-thinking assumptions about image-making. The identification of nexuses of international power on which much artistic activity was reliant is particularly pertinent to the nineteenth century in France. The session highlight the vitality of current interrogations into the complexities of the country's colonial past.

We are pleased to welcome:

Barthélemy Glama, Columbia University, New York, who will present material from his work on the role of colonial expansion in French museums during the nineteenth century.

Rachel Himes, Columbia University, New York, who will speak about her research for, and involvement with, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's current exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast.

Lacy Murphy, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri: 'Poster Culture and Colonial Tourism in Algeria during the Interwar Period'.

The session will be followed by a group discussion.

The network meets (roughly) once a month virtually via Zoom. It is open to current PhD and research students as well as ECR's who have recently graduated and are making their way in the world of academia/museums/education/arts or heritage. It is global, open to those located anywhere in the world who wish to join. Feel free to join, participate and we hope to create an engaging, diverse, fun and rewarding community.