The Anglo-Ethiopian Society
MBILI - Eastern Africa Visual Traditions, 2nd Colloquium, British Museum, London
From Wednesday 13th September 2006 to Thursday 14th September 2006
MBILI has been planned by four Africanist scholars working with different institutions in the UK. Members of the public are very welcome to attend the seminar, or any session of the seminar, but do need to register with the organisers in advance.
Registration is free, for details on how to register please contact the Anglo-Ethiopian Society via this Contact Us link.
The seminar will be held in the Hugh and Catherine Stevenson Lecture Theatre which is in the Clore Education Centre of the British Museum.
Seminar details:
Wednesday 13th September:
| Session One | 14:00 – 15:30 |
| Chris Spring | Introduction and welcome |
| Kiprop Lagat | Hazina in Nairobi: installation and reception |
| Farouk Topan | Swahili Aesthetics: some observations |
| Jackie Guille | Contemporary craft in eastern Africa:weaving links |
| Rakhia Ismail | Somali women:Back to Basics |
| Tea | 15:30 – 16:00 With a display in the Clore Foyer: ‘Back to Basics’ |
| Session Two | 16:00 – 17:30 |
| Mohamed Abdalla | The interplay of ceramic form and surface |
| Jeremy Coote | Recovering the Cultures of Southern Sudan: an online museological resource at the Pitt Rivers Museum |
| Sada Mire | Ceramic Art, Past and Present: The Nile Valley and Magdalene Odundo |
| Said El-Gheithy | Curating Princess Salmé of Zanzibar |
| Performance/Film Screening | 17:45 – 19:15 |
| Video by Berry Bickle & Luis Basto Vidas Urbanos shown at Dak’art 7th 2006 | |
| Chris Spring ‘Kanga’; ‘Tree of Life’ | |
| Drinks Reception | 19:15 – 20:00 |
Thursday 14th September:
| Session Three | 10:00 – 11:30 |
| Heidi Cutts | Ethiopian Popular Paintings: a survey from the BM’s collections |
| Ralph Isaacs | Tingatinga and reminiscences of art in 1960s Tanzania |
| Leah Niederstadt | I’m a Rich Man. How Can I Die?- Aesthetics of Moral Performance in Ethiopian Circuses |
| Coffee | 11:30 – 12:00 |
| Session Four | 12:00 – 12:45 |
| Hassan Arero & Elsbeth Court | Summary session: themes and directions in the study of eastern Africa’s visual and material culture |
| Lunchtime Public Lecture | 13:00 – 14:00 |
| Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher | AFRICAN CEREMONIES: 30 years of Photography |