Material Cultures of Eastern Africa: New Historical Perspectives from the Local to the Global<\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday 7- Thursday 8 February 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n (Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mitawanda<\/em> (clog sandals). 19th century. Wood and glass beads. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Educational Purchase Fund, 1929.566.)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The event is online. Please register here:<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/events\/british-academy-conferences\/histories-art-histories-heritage-narratives-eastern-africa\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Supported by: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In affiliation with<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Conference Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n In affiliation with the University of Manchester and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this collaborative conference will explore the diverse methodologies involved in researching eastern Africa\u2019s material history and will question how these could be further developed through interdisciplinary and international collaboration. It will bring together junior and senior scholars from archaeology, anthropology, history, art history and museum studies to consider how individuals and communities within eastern Africa have related to each other and to wider Indian Ocean and global networks through the production and consumption of objects, architecture, and ideas. Moreover, Swahili coast studies and studies of inland eastern Africa will be placed in direct conversation, where previously they have been treated quite differently in academic discourse.\u00a0<\/p>\n The conference also offers an important opportunity to reassess the material relationships that exist between East Africa and former colonising nations. Discussions about restitution, repatriation and methods of \u2018decolonization\u2019 are critical topics in current academic, public, and political discourse. However, not enough attention has yet been paid to eastern Africa in these discussions. This conference will address these issues through interrogation of themes such as the appropriation of cultural property by colonial collectors and museums, and present-day restitution of eastern African cultural heritage. Further still, Eastern African museums established in the colonial era have themselves still not opened their doors fully to local communities regarding restitution debates. We will therefore also discuss topics such as the creation of colonial and national institutions of learning, the production of enduring colonial forms of intellectual and aesthetic knowledge, and issues of public memory and amnesia.<\/p>\n The traditionally insular nature of British, US, and East African research and publishing has long encumbered opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue and exchange. This conference offers a forum for the development of new interdisciplinary and international research networks and will in-turn facilitate new collaborative opportunities. It aims to deconstruct and dismantle the borders between established fields, disciplinary traditions, and geographical locations, to open-up new methodological avenues, and to embrace a non-hierarchical approach towards critical thinking and cultural production. A digital conference blog will offer a space for further reflection by speakers and contributors from the wider research community. We also hope to curate a free online exhibition of objects and images submitted by our speakers and other colleagues. Both platforms will be fully accessible to the public and will be translated into Kiswahili thanks to generous funding from the British Academy. We are also delighted to offer all speakers a financial honorarium thanks to support from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n For further information, please contact: <\/u><\/p>\n Ali Bennett (University of Manchester)<\/p>\n Abiti Nelson (Uganda Museum)<\/p>\n Jenny Peruski (Metropolitan Museum of Art \/ Harvard University)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n CONFERENCE PROGRAMME<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n DAY ONE: Wednesday 7 February, <\/strong>1.00pm\u20134.30pm (GMT)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Welcome, Abiti Nelson, Jenny Peruski, Ali Bennett, 1.00-1.10pm<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Panel One: Material Cultures of Conflict and Post-Conflict, 1.10-2.10pm<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, University College London<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Abiti Nelson, Uganda Museums<\/p>\n Title TBC<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Zoe Cormack, British Museum<\/p>\n Early Uses of Cartridge Cases in Material Culture from South Sudan <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Patrick Abungu, The Commonwealth War Graves Commission<\/p>\n Exploring Eastern Africa\u2019s Material History: A Multifaceted Methodological Approach in Studying World Wars History in Kenya <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Break: 2.10-2.20pm<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Panel Two: Gender and Material Culture in Eastern Africa, 2.20-3.20pm <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Eileen Musundi, National Museums of Kenya<\/p>\n The East African Khanga: The Cloth that Reveals<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Jenny Peruski, Metropolitan Museum of Art\/ Harvard University<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Bodies and the Mapping of Urban Space in Eastern Africa<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Fred Mutebi, Artist, Uganda<\/p>\n Uganda Bark Cloth Revitalization <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Break: 3.20-3.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Panel Three: Eastern African Religious Landscapes, 3.30pm-4.30pm<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: Derek Peterson, University of Michigan<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Anatoli Lwassampijja, Makerere University<\/p>\n Religion and Political Heritage: Remaking the Person of Emmanuel Cardinal Nsubuga, 1966-90<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Sana Mirza, Smithsonian Institution<\/p>\n Islamic Manuscripts from Harar, Ethiopia: Toward an Art History<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Catherine Ajiambo, Uganda Museums<\/p>\n The Place of Missionary Collections in Museums <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Close: 4.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n DAY TWO: Thursday 8 February, <\/strong>1.00pm\u20134.30pm (GMT)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Panel One: Empire, Collecting, and Museums, 1.00-2.00pm<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: JC Niala, History of Science Museum, University of Oxford<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Sarah Longair, University of Lincoln<\/p>\n Connections, Collecting and Coercion: The Story of a Zanzibar Fertility Doll in the Early 20 Century<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Njabulo Chipangura, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester<\/p>\n Of Curatorial Humility in Undertaking Collaborative Provenance Research on Kenyan Collections at Manchester Museum<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Betty Karanja, National Museums of Kenya<\/p>\n Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Post-Colonial Kenya<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Break: 2.00-2.10pm<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Panel Two: Internal East African Mobilities, 2.10-3.10pm<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: Prita Meier, New York University<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ali Bennett, University of Manchester<\/p>\n Diplomatic Gifting & the Eastern African Ivory Trade in Uganda: Muteesa\u2019s Ivory Smoking Pipe<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Noemie Arazi, Africa Museum in Tervuren (Belgium)<\/p>\n Swahili Connectivity in the Upper Congo Basin <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Sarah Fee, Royal Ontario Museum<\/p>\n Fashionable Synergies in Nineteenth-century Eastern Africa <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Break: 3.10-3.20pm<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Panel Three: East African Material Culture in the Wider World, 3.20pm-4.20pm<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Chair: Nancy Um, Getty Research Institute<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Jeremy Prestholdt, University of California, San Diego<\/p>\n Between Mombasa and Osaka: East African Consumers, Japanese Industry, and Imperial Capitalism<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Jazmin Eyssallenne, University of North Carolina at Greensboro<\/p>\n The Sidi (African-Indian) Sufi Tradition of Gujarat & Mumbai: Preserving East African Material Culture & Intangible Cultural Heritage in Western India <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Awet T Araya, British Museum<\/p>\n Reclaiming History: Tracing Journeys and Narratives of 8th-9th Century Zanj Coin(s) in European Museums<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Closing remarks:<\/strong> Abiti Nelson, Jenny Peruski, Ali Bennett, 4.20-4.30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 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