General seminar arrangements in 2025
- WISER's TRUST seminar is hosted on-line every Wednesday afternoon at 16:00 - 17:00 SA during the teaching semester | For information about WISER's PLANT LIVES seminar, please follow this link.
- Please register on Zoom in advance of the meeting on this link.
- Participants must should please read the paper below prior to the seminar, which is typically available by the Friday preceding the seminar.
Object Agencies: Congolese artifacts as exhibition organisms
Monday, 6 June, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by:
Ruth
Sacks
In the late 19th century, the terms of accumulation of certain Sub Saharan African objects that came to populate museum collections in Euro-America rendered them anonymous. This article attempts to probe the full potential of what the materiality of these objects can tell us, viewing them as integral entities within the display logistics that have coalesced around them.