Global Africa Community Forum: Reckoning, Restitution, and Repair - A Community Conversation

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Center for African Studies through the US Department of Education’s Title VI NRC Program, Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, School of Art & Design, Program in Art History, Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, Office of Minority Student Affairs, the iSchool, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, Department of Linguistics, and Humanities Research Institute Supplemental Event Fund. In-kind sponsorship generously provided by Dixon Graphics. Supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

Location

Krannert Art Museum, Main Level, Arts of African Gallery, 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820

Date

Oct 13, 2023   11:00 am - 12:30 pm  

Speaker

Fatou Jobe, Toyosi Morgan, Hermann von Hesse, Terri Barnes

Contact

Krannert Art Museum

E-Mail

kam-info@illinois.edu

Phone

12173331861

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Originating Calendar

Krannert Art Museum Calendar

Friday, Oct. 13th 11AM-12:30PM, Krannert Art Museum Encounters: Arts of African Gallery
Reckoning, Restitution, Repair: A Community Conversation
On the following day, a participatory panel discussion imagining what decolonizing a museum can look like, using objects from KAM’s Encounters: The Arts of Africa gallery as points of departure, will be facilitated by Fatou Jobe (grad student, sociology), Toyosi Morgan (grad student, theatre), Hermann von Hesse (assistant professor art history), and moderated by Terri Barnes (director of the Center for African Studies.)