Dissonances. Re-interpreting and re-assessing difficult heritage - Keynote Sessions

We are pleased to share with you the Keynote Sessions of the LYNX Summer School: “Dissonances. Re-interpreting and re-assessing difficult heritage,” which will take place at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) on 13-14-15 July 2023.

The Summer School will bring together scholars and researchers to reflect on the re-interpretation of difficult heritage, by focusing on how critical and decolonial practices help in dealing with conflictual interpretations of spaces and cultural heritage. While the call for applications to participate in the Summer School is closed, MA students, PhD candidates, researchers, professors and professionals of the cultural sector or other interested participants are welcome to attend the Keynote Sessions.
To reserve a spot, interested participants should write an email to lynxsummerschool23gmail.com by 25 June 2023. The attendance fee is 50 euro and not-refundable; payment details and practical information will be provided via email. It is possible to follow the lectures both online or in person, with limited capacity.

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For any further information about the Summer School, please email lynxsummerschool23gmail.com

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PROGRAM

Day 1 - Thursday 13 July
15.00-16.00 Decolonising museums
Keynote speaker: Christian Greco (Director of Museo Egizio, Torino)
16.00-17.00 The strike against white sight is a feminist strike
Keynote speaker: Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University, New
York) - ONLINE

Day 2 - Friday 14 July
10.00 - 11.00 Places and Memories of Fascism in Italy
Keynote speaker: Giulia Albanese (Università degli Studi di Padova)
11.30-12.30 The Black Archives: exploring decolonial practices to make 'hidden histories' visible
Keynote speakers: Jessica de Abreu and Mitchell Esajas (The Black Archives)
14.00 - 15.30 Roundtable. Decolonial practices in Italy. Activism, education and the public space
Speakers: Luca Cinquemani and Fabio Aranzulla - Collettivo Aterraterra; Jadel Andreetto, Mariana Califano - Resistenze in Cirenaica; Chiara Damiani - Amir project; Giulia Riva - Libreria Griot; Justin Randolph Thompson - Black History Month Florence

Day 3 - Saturday 15 July
10.45 - 11.45 Toward an Entity of Decolonization
Keynote speakers: Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (DAAR) -
ONLINE

All the conferences will be held online and in presence at Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Piazza San Francesco 19, 55100 Lucca.

LYNX - Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage