Urban Encounters, Public Institutions and the New Europe
What role can museums and public intellectuals play in shaping more equitable and convivial futures in a changing Europe?
A new Europe is taking shape, but judging from debates in various quarters, we can hardly speak of common understandings of what form this renewal is taking.
What is apparent is that the present moment in continental Europe is marked by multiple anxieties and tensions, some of which revolve around the idea of the intrusion of “strangers”, “other cultures”, into a homogeneous national space.
The influx of “postcolonial” or “labor” migrants after WWII has transformed the demographic make-up of many European nations. These flows of people have produced new forms of diversity and structures of difference and inequality marked by an interplay between issues of race/ethnicity and class.
How exactly are new forms of diversity and inequality that are emerging in the new Europe shaped and negotiated in and through urban spaces? Given that public institutions such as museums are important actors in the urban fabric, what role can they play in shaping our understanding of these changes, and what role can they play in shaping more equitable and convivial futures?
Speakers
With - Beth Epstein (New York University); Michael Keith (Oxford University); Greg Noble (University of Western Sydney).
Location
Leeszaal, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) (entrance Mauritskade 63), Amsterdam.
Participation
Spaces are limited. To book a space please email: a.felderhof@kit.nl before Friday 23 November. Admission is free.