Liebe Studierende, liebe Kunst Afrikas-Interessierte, sehr herzlich laden wir Sie wieder zu Vortrag und anschließender Diskussion in das nächste Kolloquium zur Kunst Afrikas ein. Diesmal wird Sarah Van Beurden unter folgendem Titel ihre Forschungen vorstellen: Dr. Sarah Van Beurden, The Ohio State University Making and Mobilities in Congo: Bolobo's Ivory Carvers (1880s-1980s) Zeit: Dienstag, den 25.6.2024, 18 Uhr c.t. Ort: Raum A 124, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin This talk traces the emergence, spread, and eventual decline of modern ivory carving in the town of Bolobo on the Congo River. It investigates the conditions under which this new craft economy emerged, the exponential growth it experienced in the 20th century, and its eventual decline as a consequence of international regulations on ivory trade. Key to this history of both objects and people is an understanding of 'making' as a creative, as well as an economic, cultural, and social practice in which regimes of value meshed with (post) colonial social codification, economies, and labor. Processes of making shaped the encounter between communities and colonial structures and helped determine the lifespan of the colonial cultural economy but were acts of self-realization that reveal a shared imagination of global consumer cultures. Das Programm des Kolloquiums finden Sie auch hier: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/khi/schwerpunkte/abteilung_afrika/Kolloquium/index.html Wir freuen uns auf Sie! Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Peter Probst, Anna Helfer, Elena Setzer und Celia Schmidt Freie Universität Berlin FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Kunsthistorisches Institut Abteilung Kunst Afrikas Koserstr. 20 (A 1.92-1.94), 14195 Berlin Telefon: +49-(0)30-838-55286, Fax: +49-(0)30-838-4-55286 kunstafrikas@zedat.fu-berlin.de<mailto:kunstafrikas@zedat.fu-berlin.de>