Kenya: Violent Cartographies Colloquium
The Institute for Human Security (IHS) will be hosting a multi-disciplinary and multi-genre colloquium on Cultures of Violence /War and Identity on the 3-4 November 2009. The title of the event this year is "Violent Cartographies: Mapping Colonial and Postcolonial Identities and Cultures of War"- a project that seeks to "unmap" the familiar world by raising questions and employing genres of expression that interrogate dominant ways of thinking about violence/ war , identities and the spaces of their occurrence.
The Institute for Human Security (IHS) will be hosting a multi-disciplinary and multi-genre colloquium on Cultures of Violence /War and Identity on the 3-4 November 2009. The title of the event this year is "Violent Cartographies: Mapping Colonial and Postcolonial Identities and Cultures of War"- a project that seeks to "unmap" the familiar world by raising questions and employing genres of expression that interrogate dominant ways of thinking about violence/ war , identities and the spaces of their occurrence.
Most broadly, the project engages a variety of counter spaces in order to reflect on how ‘we’ encounter peoples with incommensurate practices of identity. It also seeks to encourage critical discourses that speculate on the possibilities of an ethics of encounter predicated on minimal violence and respect for alterity.
To explore the shifting conceptualisations of war, ethics and identity from a variety of aesthetic and political perspectives, the Violent Cartographies Event will involve a 2 day colloquium and a writers workshop to be held at the British Institute in Eastern Africa Seminar Room. A 15 day photo installation- exhibition by fine-art photographer Rujunko Pugh will also be take place at the Kuona Trust gallery [between 4th -15th November 2009].
Attached is the colloquium program and further details on the photo-exhibition.
To confirm your attendance, please send an email to [email][email protected] or call Sam on 0714666042 by 2nd November 2009.
A colloquium registration fee of Ksh 750 is payable at the venue to cover meals and light refreshments.