The Wits History Workshop and the School of Architecture & Planning with the support of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) are hosting an online conference titled "In whose place? Confronting the vestiges of the colonial landscape in Africa" on 20 and 21 May 2021.
Through a series of public presentations, the conference will engage with ways in which history, art and architecture practices currently contest and subvert the protracted conditions of colonialism and apartheid in terms of social justice, rural development, nature conservation, heritage, land reclamation and urban renewal. The focus will be on oppressive environments across Africa to understand the history of such disputed places and responses of remembrance, communal consideration and conflict. The postcolonial period following the dismantling of these colonial regimes is to be discussed in the light of contemporary urban
architectural, art, ecological and heritage projects, in which buildings, objects and the natural environment are being renegotiated as sites of resurgent public
practice.
To register for this event, please visit the conference website:
https://www.inwhoseplace.com
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