[Workshop] Slow Curating: Time, Memory and Representation

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Join the online workshop Slow Curating: Time, Memory and Representation, on Friday 10 November 2023, on ZOOM, 2-4 p.m. (CET). The workshop investigates ways in which slow curating forms can activate ‘social time’ and re-articulate knowledge during times of acceleration.

Presentations by Susana Gomes da Silva, CAM – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Blerta Hoçia, Humanitarian Law Center (Kosovo), and Vicky Karaiskou, Open University of Cyprus (Cyprus) will be followed with a discussion on the pace and tone of curating memory today and future imagining.

The discussion will be moderated by Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina) and Alice Semedo, CITCEM – University of Porto (Portugal).

Please join via this link.

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