Member Talk – Colonial Money in Africa

Name: Member Talk – Colonial Money in Africa
Start: 2024-10-15T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-15T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom

Schedule

Tue Oct 15 2024 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom | Oxford, EN

An exclusive online talk for Members of the Ashmolean
Tue 15 Oct, 3–4pm
Colonial Money in Africa
With Shailendra Bhandare, Ashmolean Curator of South Asian and Far-Eastern Coins and Paper Money and Curator of the museum’s major exhibition Money Talks:, Art, Society & Power
Join curator Shailendra Bhandare to discover how colonialism brought ‘modern’ coins and banknotes to Africa, and in the process disrupted and reconfigured traditional monetary systems with deep cultural and social roots.
Much like the introduction of ‘modern’ forms of industry, transport and agriculture, colonial currency was engineered for economic extraction and exploitation. In this talk, Shailendra will explore the role of imagery on colonial money in perpetuating the colonial narrative. He will reveal how its use as a tool and a symbol of control is often overlooked but offers fascinating insights into how the colonial powers ‘imagined’ Africa as well as providing a key means of learning about our past.
Shailendra is Assistant Keeper, South Asian and Far-eastern Numismatics and Paper Money Collections, a Fellow of St Cross College and a member of Faculty of Oriental Studies. He started his career as a Numismatist with a visiting fellowship at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. He was then appointed as a post-doctoral fellow of the Society for South Asian Studies and worked as a curator in the British Museum on the coins of Later Mughals and the Indian Princely States. He was appointed as curator of coins in the Ashmolean Museum in 2002.
The talk will be recorded and shared with ticketholders following the event.
BOOKING
Tickets are £10, and are available exclusively for Members of the Ashmolean Museum.
https://www.ashmolean.org/event/colonial-money-in-africa