Professor Coombes consulted on Human Rights Memorial for Africa
Annie E. Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture, has been invited to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) by the Commission of the African Union to join a discussion on commissioning a Human Rights Memorial for Africa.
Annie E. Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture, has been invited to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) by the Commission of the African Union to join a discussion on commissioning a Human Rights Memorial for Africa.
The Consultative Meeting of Experts will bring together about 50 participants to discuss plans on how the project will proceed; how to ensure best practices; how to best honour the memory of past violence and how to establish a Memorial that is a sustainable, permanent and powerful recognition of the histories of the human rights abuses in Africa.
Professor Coombes’ most recent book publication History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa explored the politics of memory and private and public commemorative practices in visual culture in post-apartheid South Africa.
She supervises research students on colonial and post-colonial culture in Britain, South Africa, West Africa and Australia; international and colonial exhibitions; museum and heritage studies; slavery in Britain and politics and contemporary art practice.
Related links
- Academic profile: Professor Annie E. Coombes
- Commission of the African Union
- Research degrees in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media