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May Newsletter
This month is the inauguration of the much-anticipated 56th Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor. There has already been great excitement at the news of El Anatsui receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, and the appointment of the International Jury: Naomi Beckwith (USA), Sabine Breitwieser (Austria), Mario Codognato (Italy), Ranjit…
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CALL FOR 4th GHETTO BIENNALE 2015
Kreyòl, Vodou and the Lakou: forms of resistance After the Haiti Revolution, the formerly enslaved peasants had three tools for their ‘counter-plantation’ position – the Kreyòl language, the Lakou system and the belief-system and ritual practices of Vodou, a triumvirate of linguistic, territorial and cultural resistance. Laurent Dubois, writing in Haiti: The Aftershocks of History,…
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After Revolution: Versions and Re-visions of Haiti
This conference, organised by scholars from the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Liverpool, takes the centenary of US occupation in Haiti as an occasion to explore the country’s history, politics and culture since its Declaration of Independence in 1804. Taking the Haitian Revolution as a key reference point, the conference seeks to…
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