Postcolonial Hauntologies

The Jarislowsky Institute, Pavillon Ev Building, 3rd floor, Concordia University

Registration 9.:30 – 10:00

10:00 –10:10

10.10 – 11.40

Reckoning with the Terrible Beauty of the Archive

Ingrid Jones (University of Toronto)

The conceptual deployment of the archive in the research-driven praxes of contemporary Maghrebi (working title)

Nancy Demerdash (College for Creative Studies)

The Spectre of Crochet: A Woman’s Lived Experience

Pragya Sharma (University of Brighton) (online)

Hauntology in Gê Viana’s Afro-Indigenous re-imaginations

Rodrigo D'Alcântara (Concordia University)

Moderator Balbir K. Singh

Coffee break 11:40 – 11:50

11:50 – 13.30

The Legacy of Violence: Apartheid Monsters and Post-Apartheid Mimicry in the Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander

Amy Nygaard (University of Saint Thomas)

The Bodies that Haunt the Colonial Institute: Human remains in and through Dutch museal space

Pansee Abou ElAtta (Carleton University)

(Con)Strained Utopias: Hauntings in the Activist-Workplace

Richenda Grazette (Concordia University)

Lunch break 13:30 – 14:30

14:30 – 16:20

Venue: EV1.605

druzhba narodov (25 min)

a film by Intizor Otaniyazova (artist, Kazakhstan)

The Landmarks of Memory (6:40 min)

a film by Christina Hajjar (artist, Canada), followed by a Q&A session moderated by Manar Abo Touk

Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal, Nutag - Homeland, The Fourfold (22 min)

short animated films by Alisi Telengut, followed by a conversation between the artist and Alice Jim

16:20 –16:30

Abstracts

Postcolonial Hauntologies Abstracts Montreal.pdf

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