"Potentially the Pompeii of East Africa": Histories of Archaeology, Colonialism, and Tourism in East African Stone Towns
Lecture
- Online event via Zoom
- Datum: 11.10.2021
- Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 13:00
- Vortragende: Vera-Simone Schulz
- Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
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Putting
this statement, made by none other than Mortimer Wheeler in the mid-twentieth
century, into context, this talk investigates approaches to the
architectural heritage of coastal East Africa with regard to
archaeological expeditions, the early history of tourism, and the weights of
colonialism. The talk will then seek to re-frame Wheeler’s statement in the
context of more recent approaches to East African architecture, and discuss the
possibilities and challenges for re-considerations of East African architectural
heritage beyond Eurocentric notions of center and periphery in the
horizons of transcultural and global art histories.
Vera-Simone
Schulz is postdoctoral research
associate at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut,
where she works at the crossroads of Islamic, African and European art
histories. She is co-director of the collaborative research project "Material
Migrations: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia", funded by the Gerda
Henkel Foundation, and co-convenor of the seminar series "Plants in
Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and
Aesthetics (MMEA)", hosted by the Consortium of the History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine. Her publications appeared in Zeitschrift
für Kunstgeschichte, Perspective: Actualité en histoire de l’art,
Convivium, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, and Mitteilungen des
Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, among other journals. She’s
currently co-editing a volume on "Connectivity, Transcultural
Entanglements, and the Power of Aesthetic Choices in Africa", editing a
volume on "Archaeology, Colonialism, and the History of Tourism",
and working on her habilitation project on "East Africa’s Elsewheres:
Archipelagic Thinking and Transcultural Art Histories".
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Scientific organization: Katharine Stahlbuhk and Tristan Weddigen