Symposium: Landscape and Power
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
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Symposium: Landscape and Power
Speakers: Swati Chattopadhyay, David Haney, Joel McKim
This event brings together three speakers to share their research on the relationships between landscape, power, territory and memory at three distinct moments: colonial India, Nazi Germany, and contemporary USA/Norway.
Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California Santa Barbara (Birkbeck Institute of Humanities Visiting Fellow), Territorial Expansion and the Making of an Affective Landscape in British Colonial India
David Haney, University of Kent, The Nazi Cultural Landscape: Strengthening Territory through 'Earth-Rooted' Monuments
Joel McKim, Birkbeck, Memorial Landscapes: Utøya and Freshkills Park
This symposium is organised by the ASSC as part of Birkbeck's Arts Week. It is free of charge and all are welcome. Please book here.