Visual Pasts, Material Presents, Archival Futures: Postcolonial Temporalities in the Making - Graduate Conference

19 to 20 May 2025

This conference aims to bring together current research on visual, material and archival collections and explore the ways in which their materiality is shaped by time and place. Held in museums and archives, objects, natural specimens, human remains, photographs, films, sounds, drawings, documents and more embody the disruption created by missionaries, militaries, colonial officers, scientists, explorers or humble travellers in territories which endured colonisation. Through the act of collecting, classifying, storing and exhibiting, museums, anthropology and imperial politics shaped an ethnographic present in order to dominate colonised peoples, whose own temporalities had no space to exist.


Registration

This event is open to all. Booking is mandatory.

Conference fees for all attendees: £30. It will give you access to the conference, breakfasts, teas and coffee breaks as well as to the conference dinner on 19 May. 

Please follow this registration link.


Programme

A full Programme is now available.

  • Transportation

    By plane

    From London Heathrow Airport, you can use the Elizabeth line (underground) to join the London Liverpool Street train station from where you will depart to go to Norwich. While using the underground, you can use your credit card to go through the tube’s gates which spares you to buy a ticket. In order to book you train ticket from London to Norwich, you can use the Greater Anglia website.

    From Stansted Airport, you can take a direct train to Norwich train station. In order to book your train ticket, you can use the Greater Anglia website.


    Norwich Airport

    Norwich has its own airport. Once arrived at the airport, it is easy to travel to the city centre or UEA thanks to the 512 bus line or by booking a taxi. A2B Taxi is the official airport authorized taxi company: +44 (0) 1603 552354 or use the website.

    When travelling from Norwich Airport, please be aware that all customers must pay the airport development fee (£10). The fee is only when you fly from Norwich, and not for flights which land in Norwich.

    By train (from London)

    From King’s Cross – St Pancras train station to Norwich

    When arriving with the Eurostar at King’s Cross St Pancras’ train station, you can use either the Circle, Metropolitan or Hammersmith & City underground lines to reach Liverpool Street train station where all trains to Norwich depart from. To purchase your tickets, you can use the Greater Anglia website.


    From Liverpool Street train station to Norwich

    Trains from London to Norwich leave from London Liverpool Street train station. To purchase your tickets, you can use the Greater Anglia website.

    Transport in Norwich

    Taxi

    Many local taxi providers operate in the Norwich area. You will find taxis at the train station, but you can also book or call them whenever needed.

    ABC Taxi: +44 (0) 1603 666333 (ABC Taxi Norwich App available)

    Courtesy Taxi +44 (0) 1603 446644 (Courtesy Taxis Norwich App available)


    Bus

    Buses are the easiest mode of transportation in Norwich. You can use the 25 or 26 bus lines from the train station or the city centre to reach UEA campus. Please stop at the University Drive stop if using the 26 line. If using the 25 bus line, please stop at the Admissions Building stop which is closer to the Sainsbury Centre and the Julian Study Centre.

    You can purchase the ticket when entering the bus, advising the driver where you are going to (UEA campus or city centre, for example). A bus ticket costs £3 per journey. Alternatively, you can buy tickets (only day tickets or weekly tickets) on the First Bus App, by selecting the Norfolk & Waveney region, and the Norwich area.

    View the First Bus website or download the First Bus app for any information to travel around Norwich.


    Around campus

    Please have a look at the UEA map. The conference’s main location will be the Julian Study Centre.


    Dinner

    The conference dinner will take place on May 19th at The Yard Coffee in the city centre. From the UEA campus, you can take the 25 or 26 bus lines and stop at the Red Lion Street stop.


    Accommodation

    If you would like to stay on campus during the time of the conference, you can stay at Broadview Lodge.

    If you would like to stay in town, Norwich has several Travelodge and Premier Inn hotels but also various local hotels such as The Georgian Townhouse.

    If you would like to stay in an apartment, you could look at No 82 or Golden Triangle Townhouse.


    Accessibility

    If you have accessibility needs or concerns, please email us at humgrad.events@uea.ac.uk