Essential Readings #ErkkoLecture
I am rereading some of my own articles and chapters as I prepare for today’s lecture, and I thought these […]
Jane Cowan on the Origins of ‘Minority’
Jane Cowan, the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
#HAUTALK: the tyranny of structurelessness and no end in sight
On June 11th 2018, David Graeber published an apology about the amount of time it took him to understand the
The Un(der)revealed Relations of Things in Museums: an introduction
I was at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam one fall afternoon when I decided to take a shortcut through the exhibition
Layers – A Photography Exhibition
Allegra has an extensive archive of photographs. These images are usually incorporated as supporting materials to written essays. This exhibition
What’s Left Behind – A visual essay #livesofobjects
Brook Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist who examines dominant narratives, often relating to colonialism and modernist theories. Through museum and
The Secret Life of Objects: Strategies for Telling New Stories in Exhibitions #livesofobjects
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet It’s 2013 and I
Introduction: Displacement and New Sociabilities
In this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by
Shifting Sands – A film by Paul Reade
Tourism creates and depends on an entanglement of temporary and permanent displacements; at the same time it manipulates and projects
Reading the Signs: Dust, Smoke, and Displacement in Athens
‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does