Divya Tolia-Kelly. "Being and feeling in the spaces of museum and academy"

Prof. Divya Tolia-Kelly (Sussex University) will give a lecture on "Being and feeling in the spaces of museum and academy".

Location: Aula Gambi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2, University of Bologna

Discussant: Prof. Ruba Salih

and online (via Teams)

Bio: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly is Professor of Geography & Heritage Studies at Sussex. Her research is focussed on postcolonial and anti-racist approaches to cultural geographies, migration, landscape, memory, heritage, visual culture and material culture using participatory methodologies. Her books published include a monograph Landscape, Race and Memory (2010); Visuality/Materiality: Objects, Images and Practices (edited with Gillian Rose) and the co-edited volume (with Steve Watson and Emma Waterton) entitled Heritage, Affect and Emotion:Politics, practices and infrastructures (2016)".

Discussant for the event is Professor Ruba Salih, who obtained a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex. Before joining Bologna in 2022, she was a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. Her research and writing cover transnational migration and diasporas across the Middle East and Europe, colonisation and decolonisation, refugees and the Palestine question, gender memory and colonial traumas.

The event is part of the seminar series "Dissonant memories and movements", in the framework the activities of the Memory Lab research center in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna

The series is organised by prof. Annaclaudia Martini and Martina Tazzioli (University of Bologna)

Host or Publisher Ana Valdivia, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli