As part of the exhibition "Exhibitions, The Invention of the Savage", thirty international specialists will attend four round tables on specific themes to give a cross-cutting view of the phenomenon of exhibitions both of monsters and exotics in Europe, the United States and Japan.
The round tables, introduced by short presentations by each speaker followed by discussion and debates, will address the following questions:
- The construct of race and the framing of an outlook in ethnographic exhibitions, the invention of otherness,
- Images and imaginings of "savages" in sideshows, stages of an outlook,
- Exhibitions, colonisation and the building of nations, the impact of sideshows,
- The savage, an ordinary construct, contemporary challenges.
This international symposium is an extension of previous symposia on ethnographic and colonial exhibitions held in Marseille in 2001 and in London in 2008, and prefigures the upcoming stages at the Université de Lausanne in May 2012, followed by Los Angeles in 2014.
ORGANISERS
The Fondation Lilian Thuram Éducation contre le racisme, the CNRS, the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac and the Achac Research Group.
COORDINATION
Anna Gianotti Laban
- Place: Théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss
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TimeSlots:
From Tuesday 24 January 2012 to Wednesday 25 January 2012 -
Accessibility:
- Handicap moteur
- Public: Researcher, student
- Categorie : Symposia
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Free entry (subject to available places)
