Apologies for cross-posting
Many of you may be interested in the following event taking place in
Manchester (Whitworth Art Gallery) on FRIDAY 19 MARCH. The event is FREE
and includes some very prominent academics and museum curators (including
the Director of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin). If anyone would
like further details, please let me know.
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The Institute for Transnational Studies in Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
at the University of Manchester
VISUALISING AND EXHIBITING FASCISM, 19 March 2010
Scholars and graduate students are cordially invited to a half-day workshop
on 'Visualising and Exhibiting Fascism', which will take place on Friday 19
March at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. The workshop
will bring together academics and practitioners to explore some ideas,
approaches and problems relating to the production and subsequent display of
cultural artefacts associated with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
PROGRAMME
13:00-13:15 Registration (entrance foyer)
13:15- Welcome (lecture theatre)
13:30-15:30 Session 1
Exhibiting Fascism
Gregory Maertz (St. John's College, New York) will present his remarkable
discovery of an unknown collection of Nazi war art -- by a group of artists
embedded in the German army, commissioned directly by Hitler -- and explore
the surprisingly modernist character of the images. He will then speak about
the political issues he has encountered in trying to stage an exhibition of
these works in the United States.
Hans Ottomeyer (Director, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin) and Rachel
Knight (Head of Exhibitions, Imperial War Museum North,
Manchester) will then present short papers addressing some of the issues
relating to the exhibition of politically sensitive works.
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break (South Gallery)
16:00-18:00 Session 2
Fascism and Its Images: Roger Griffin, Jeffrey Schnapp and Charles Burdett in
Conversation
Three leading cultural historians of fascism, Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes),
Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford) and Charles Burdett (Bristol) will address a set of
six questions, which concern the way we can interpret the cultural language
of fascism, how our assessment of it has changed in the light of recent
academic trends, and what implications this research has for the broader
public encounter with fascism and its images.
For further information, please contact [log in to unmask]
There is no fee, and all are welcome. (If we run out of space, seats will be
allocated on a first come first serve basis, so please arrive punctually).
For directions to the venue, please visit:
http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/yourvisit/travel/
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