Talk
Archival Confrontations
With Christine Hill and Kaya Behkalam
Sat, Nov 17, 2018
Lobby
5 pm
Free admission
In English
It is impossible to make an unbiased assessment of archives, because in the same way as historiography, archives and museums generally reflect only one point of view on a particular collection. The classification and presentation of archives are subject to criteria that follow specific cultural practices. Christine Hill and Kaya Behkalam try to to decipher and question these politics of the archive.