Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for this
conference via the conference website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/cais/
*Visual Cultures and Colonialism:*
*Indigeneity in Local and Transnational Imagery*
2-3 May 2008
Koorie Heritage Trust
295 King St, Melbourne
A growing body of postcolonial research has established the importance
of visual imagery in creating and popularizing ideas about race and
cultural difference. Visual representations of Indigenous peoples
circulated from local to transnational contexts, participating in
colonial networks of global exchange and defining relations of power.
One strand of analysis has revealed the complicity of Western scopic
regimes with imperialism, tracing the ways that visual cultures express
the colonizers’ expansionist gaze. Another seeks to emphasise the role
of Indigenous peoples within this relationship, identifying culturally
distinct visual traditions and the reformulation of new media such as
photography and museum exhibitions. Descendant re-valuation of the
colonial archive is inverting colonial exhibitory practices and
spectacle, producing new meanings through re-contextualisation of these
images. This conference aims to bring together research and thinking on
visual cultures and indigeneity that attends to local specificity as
well as the global circuits of visual discourse, illuminating both
colonial process and attempts at decolonisation.
A draft program and abstracts are also now available.
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Dr Jane Lydon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
Monash University
Clayton VIC 3800
AUSTRALIA
T: 03-9905 1658
F: 03-9902 0321
http://arts.monash.edu.au/cais/research/st-jl.html
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