ABOUT CONFERENCE:
Lodz, 19th - 20th November 2015
University of Lodz
Organizers:
History of Art Department of University of Lodz
Polish Institute of World Art Studies
International conference AFRICAN TRADITION – AFRICAN MODERNITY was held on November 2015 in the History of Art Department of University of Lodz in glamorous Alfred Biedermann’s Palace rooms.
Among institutions supporting this project we must mention Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Mikołaj Kopernik Univeristy in Torun, University of Lodz Foundation, Polish Society of African Studies and also African Institute and Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź. This conference, co-organised by Polish Institute of World Art Studies, was a successive encounter devoted to african cultures.
The University officials took part in ceremonial welcome. The „Culture - Tradition” Plenary Session was led by Aneta Pawłowska Ph.D and it was graced by foreign speakers: Professor Olatunji Alabi Oyeshile from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria who presented a lecture "Re-Theorizing Indigenous African Arts and Aesthetics for African Development: The Yoruba Example" about african aesthethics and Professor Abedalrazaka Al-Nasir, Rector of the Wasit University in Iraq - his speech "Cultural Modernity in Zanzibar 1890-1939" was concernig the problem of the begining of modern education.
Next common element for all participants of the conference was visiting exhibition ”On the service of the Lords and Witchcrafts. The Art of Nigeria” in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź at 14 Liberty Square.
Another sessions were taking part in five panels „European Art towards Africa”, „History - Economy - Policy”, „Architecture”, „Ethnography” and „Modern Art”. In all there were presented twenty three lectures devoted to different faces of modern Africa. In view of the place where the conference was held (History of Art Department of University of Lodz), the greatest attention was focused on the subject of broadly defined land art.
Next edition of the conference is scheduled on 2016.
dr hab. Aneta Pawłowska
dr Julia Sowińska-Heim
University of Lodz
Organizers:
History of Art Department of University of Lodz
Polish Institute of World Art Studies
International conference AFRICAN TRADITION – AFRICAN MODERNITY was held on November 2015 in the History of Art Department of University of Lodz in glamorous Alfred Biedermann’s Palace rooms.
Among institutions supporting this project we must mention Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Mikołaj Kopernik Univeristy in Torun, University of Lodz Foundation, Polish Society of African Studies and also African Institute and Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź. This conference, co-organised by Polish Institute of World Art Studies, was a successive encounter devoted to african cultures.
The University officials took part in ceremonial welcome. The „Culture - Tradition” Plenary Session was led by Aneta Pawłowska Ph.D and it was graced by foreign speakers: Professor Olatunji Alabi Oyeshile from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria who presented a lecture "Re-Theorizing Indigenous African Arts and Aesthetics for African Development: The Yoruba Example" about african aesthethics and Professor Abedalrazaka Al-Nasir, Rector of the Wasit University in Iraq - his speech "Cultural Modernity in Zanzibar 1890-1939" was concernig the problem of the begining of modern education.
Next common element for all participants of the conference was visiting exhibition ”On the service of the Lords and Witchcrafts. The Art of Nigeria” in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź at 14 Liberty Square.
Another sessions were taking part in five panels „European Art towards Africa”, „History - Economy - Policy”, „Architecture”, „Ethnography” and „Modern Art”. In all there were presented twenty three lectures devoted to different faces of modern Africa. In view of the place where the conference was held (History of Art Department of University of Lodz), the greatest attention was focused on the subject of broadly defined land art.
Next edition of the conference is scheduled on 2016.
dr hab. Aneta Pawłowska
dr Julia Sowińska-Heim