This conference will bring together scholars, writers, curators, researchers, and artists to reflect on the international solidarity movements that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century during processes of decolonisation in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
These transnational solidarities expressed themselves in landmark events, historic conferences and festivals; in the formation of associations, magazines, and journals; and significantly, in the explosion of new creative manifestations in literary and visual artistic arenas, such as novels, poetry, theatre, film and visual arts, and in the rise of postcolonial studies and critical theory. The conference programme will be organised into three areas – historic landmarks, political and cultural platforms, and emancipatory futures. Landmarks will include the Cuban Revolution, the Algerian War for Independence, as well as liberation movements in Vietnam, South Africa, and Palestine, among others. Platforms will include the Pan-African gatherings, the Bandung and Tricontinental Conferences, and publications such as Lotus, Souffles, and Black Phoenix. Emancipatory futures will be explored in the conference’s two keynotes, panel presentations, and a closing panel on the future of solidarity scholarship.
...This conference is co-organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University and the Africa Institute, Sharjah.
Read the details of the conferance at www.tate.org.uk
