Wayne Modest, Ninety-Six Degrees in the Shade: Colouring in Absent Images

Susan Legêne, Mallaby’s Car: Perspectives on an English, Dutch, Indonesian and Indian Decolonization Clash

Clara Himmelheber​, The Exhibition "Namibia − Germany: A Shared/Divided History. Resistance, Violence, Memory" (Cologne, Berlin 2004/2005)

Rita Duffy, Remember Who You Are

Peju Layiwola, Making Meaning of a Fragmented Past: 1897 and the Creative Process

The project is designed to initiate new relationships and exchanges among the academic, policy, curating and artistic communities. Supported by the European Science Foundation (Humanities in the European Research Area, HERA). Traumatic pasts have complex and often dramatic influences on the present. The conference will explore creative engagements with controversial pasts in art practice, curating and museums, establishing a dialogue among diverse participants. Read more about our theme and aims on the project website www.open.ac.uk/Arts/disturbing-pasts/.