Project funding

This research has been made possible by a major grant from HERA (Humanities on the European Research Area) and European Framework 7. Without this funding and support a project such as PhotoCLEC would not be possible.

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PhotoCLEC is one of series of European collaborative projects exploring aspects of cultural identity across Europe in comparative perspective. We have benefited greatly from interaction with other HERA-funded projects over the past 18 months.

The grant was made to a Joint Research Project team from The University of the Arts London (until May 2011) and then De Montfort University, Leicester UK, University of Bergen, Norway and the VU University Amsterdam. We are also grateful to our institutions for their support throughout the project.

Project outcomes

This website is a major open access outcome presenting an accessible summary of the issues and results of the project.

Other outcomes include academic papers, workshops and conferences papers including.

Absent Histories and Absent Images: Photographs, Museums and Colonial Past

Elizabeth Edwards and Matt Mead.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/volumes/volume-11-2013

A book Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs, edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Sigrid Lien is currently in preparation, to be published by Ashgate in 2014. A further volume, Museums and Representation of the Colonial Past edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Susan Legêne, is planned.

Photography and Culture 5(3) Special issue November 2012 (edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Susan Legêne and Sigrid Lien)

Exhibition: The Colonial Album.

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford January 8 – April 9 2012

http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/colonial_album.html

Sigrid Lien: ”Kolonial skam og borgerlig stolthet: historien om et ukjent maleri” Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, 2-3,2011 s.96-108

Sigrid Lien: ” ” Margit Ellinors bilder - samisk samtidsfotografi som arena for postkoloniale erfaringer” In Hovden, J F & Knapskog, K (eds.): Hunting High and Low. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press. 2012

Sigrid Lien: ”Conventional Ethnographic Display or Subversive Aesthetics? Historical Narratives of the Sami National Museum in Norway” Linköping University Press,: http://www.eunamus.eu/outcomes.html.

Edy Seriese, Finding history: the inheritance of the IWI collection, Research report for PhotoCLEC, 2011 (pdf)

Daan van Dartel, Indies Images of the Colonial Everyday in a Multi-‐ethnic postcolonial society: Interview, Research report for PhotoCLEC, 2012 (pdf)

Project activities

Elizabeth Edwards: “Absent Images: museums and the photographic legacy of colonialism. International conference paper. European Social Science History Conference. Glasgow. 12 April 2012

Elizabeth Edwards: “The Invisibility of History: Photography, the Colonial and the refiguring of Nation”. Keynote address, The Photographic Archive and the Idea of Nation. Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, Italy. 27 October 2011

Elizabeth Edwards and Matt Mead: “Museums strategies: addressing the photographic legacy of colonialism" World History and Digital Scholarship, University of Cambridge. 29 October 2010

Susan Legêne, "De nationale herinnering: herdenken en verdringen" ('National Memory: commemoration and suppression') the SWR(KNAW)-Hendrik Muller-Summerschool June 2011.

Sigrid Lien: '”The meaning of it all': Poetry and politics in Peter Rosendahl’s photographs from Spring Grove, Minnesota”. Norwegian-American Seminar XI, Migrant Journeys: The Norwegian-American Experience in a Multicultural Context, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, USA, 14-17 June 2011

Sigrid Lien: ”Samekvinnen i monteren: Fotografiets rolle i den museale representasjon av samisk historie og identitet”, The Annual meeting of the Norwegian Anthropologist Association. May 2011

Sigrid Lien: ”Lengselens bilder. Fotografiet i historien om den norske amerikautvandringen”, NAHA-Norway Meeting, Litteraturhuset, Oslo. 13 November 2010

Sigrid Lien: ”Shame and Pride: Colonial Past exhibited in Bergen”, Forum for Culture, Society and History, University of Stavanger. 23 March 2011

Matt Mead: “Post-Imperial Melancholia and the Imperial War Museum.” Transnational Memories seminar: Photographs and (Post) colonial Remembrance. University of Utrecht. 25 March 2011

Matt Mead: “Curating Colonial 'Complexity': Photographic realism in the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum.” Challenging History conference, London.24 February 2012

Hilde Nielssen and Sigrid Lien: "Conventional Ethnographic Display or Subversive Aesthetics? Historical Narratives of the Sami National Museum in Norway", at the Eunamus Conference Great historical narratives in Europe's National Museums, Paris, 25-26 November 2011

Hilde Nielssen and Sigrid Lien: "Stories told through images: Photography as an entrance to the colonial past", at the conference Exhibitions as Sites of Cultural Diversity - Foreignness, University of Turku, 18-19 November 2010.

Hilde Nielssen: “Basisutstillingene - museets problembarn? Noen tanker omkring Kulturhistorisk museums etnografiske utstillinger", presented at The Annual meeting of the Norwegian Anthropologist Association, May 2011.

Hilde Nielssen: From Norway to the Ends of the World. Missionary contributions to Norwegian Images of 'Self' and 'Other', keynote lecture at the conference

Exhibitions as Sites of Cultural Diversity - Foreignness, University of Turku, 18-19 November 2010.

Pamela Pattynama: ‘De IWI-collectie als postkoloniaal archief.” Lecture at the TongTong Fair, Den Haag (The Netherlands) 29 May 2011.

Pamela Pattynama: “Postkoloniaal Indië: geleende herinneringen en collectief geheugen.” Bijzondere lezing Spui 25, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), (Special lecture at academic debating centre Spui 25). 7 April 2011

Pamela Pattynama: “Onze krant heeft geen plaatjes!”. Symposium Indischepers Arnhem (ICHB) (The Netherlands), for the Society of Indies Literature in the Netherlands. 6 November 2011

Hilde Nielssen: "The permanent exhibitions as the problem child of the museum. Some thoughts about the ethnographical exhibitions at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo", at the Photoclec workshop, Amsterdam University 6-8 May 2011.

Hilde Nielssen: "Colonialism's culture in Norway. Challenging ethnographic and popular conventions of representing the 'Other' - a report from an exhibition project", presented at the Photoclec workshop: Photographs, Colonial Legacy and Museums, Bergen 23 November 2010:.

Hilde Nielssen: From Norway to the Ends of the World. Missionary contributions to Norwegian Images of 'Self' and 'Other', keynote lecture at the conference

Exhibitions as Sites of Cultural Diversity - Foreignness, University of Turku, 18-19 November 2010.

Sigrid Lien: '”The meaning of it all': Poetry and politics in Peter Rosendahl’s photographs from Spring Grove, Minnesota”, presented at the Norwegian-American Seminar XI, Migrant Journeys: The Norwegian-American Experience in a Multicultural Context, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, USA, June 14–17, 2011.

Sigrid Lien: “The sami woman in the exhibition case: Museums and the role of photography in the representation of sami history and identity”, at the Photoclec workshop, Amsterdam University 6-8 May 2011.

Sigrid Lien: ”Samekvinnen i monteren: Fotografiets rolle i den museale representasjon av samisk historie og identitet”, presented at The Annual meeting of the Norwegian Anthropologist Association, May 2011.

Sigrid Lien: ”Lengselens bilder. Fotografiet i historien om den norske amerikautvandringen”, NAHA-Norway Meeting, Litteraturhuset, Oslo. 13.11.2010.

Sigrid Lien: ”Shame and Pride: Colonial Past exhibited in Bergen”, Forum for Culture, Society and History, University of Stavanger, 23.03.2011.