AHM Conference 2017: Materialities of Postcolonial Memory

Materialities of Postcolonial Memory
This conference is the annual international conference of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) of the University of Amsterdam. This year, the focus is on key public debates around colonial legacies, the slavery past, migration and the materiality of postcolonial heritage.

The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture
AHM fosters a dynamic, interdisciplinary and transnational research of heritage and memory, organizes PhD training, seminars, reading groups, workshops, public debates, and international conferences, and stimulates scholarly cooperation in an international setting.

The school brings together researchers working in diverse areas and fields heritage and memory studies, cultural studies, museum studies, archaeology and material culture, art history, media, conservation and restoration, archival studies, digital humanities, postcolonial and performative studies, religious studies, music and theatre studies, conflict and identity studies, Slavonic languages and cultures, Holocaust and genocide studies, European memory studies, Middle Eastern studies, and cultural, public and oral history.

More information and updates: www.ahmpostcolonialmemory.humanities.uva.nl