Exhibition launch: "Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives"

Schedule

Thu Oct 06 2022 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

The Exchange, King's College London | London, EN

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You are invited to the opening of the public exhibition: "Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives"!
About this Event

The exhibition "Afro-Asian solidarities: Lotus and its afterlives" will open on Thursday 6th October 2022. Join us for the opening launch on 6th October 2022 at 6.30pm, at the Exchange (Bush House North East Wing, King's College London). There will be a panel discussion followed by a food and wine reception. The entry is free but registration is compulsory.

The exhibition will stay open until the 14th of October, Monday-Friday from 9.00- 6.00pm in the Exchange. Free entry.

Co-created with students, this exhibition focuses on the anti-colonial writers and artists of the Afro-Asian Writers Association and their journal Lotus published in Arabic, English and French from Cairo and Beirut (1960s-1980s).

The exhibition is a result of a collaborative cross-departmental project between academics and students in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Department of International Development.

Building on our interdisciplinary expertise we foreground the importance of this neglected body of cultural production from the Global South, stressing its centrality in the making of contemporary global politics and world literature.

We examine how archives of anticolonial cultural production can help us question colonial structures and racialised discrimination, and how they can help imagine a more inclusive pedagogy.

The project was possible through funding from the KCL Race Equity & Inclusive Education Fund (REIEF).

Exhibition Team: Malak Abdelkhalek, MA Comparative Literature 2020-21; Toka Alhamzawey, Graphic Designer; Sudi Ali, BA Comparative Literature 2020-23; Noha Choudhury, BA English 2019-22; Salma Duqah, BA International Development 2019-22; Dr Sara Marzagora, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Dr Rafeef Ziadah, Department of International Development

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Where is it happening?

The Exchange, King's College London, Bush House North East Wing, Aldwych, London, United Kingdom

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