News and Events
February 2025
Applications now open
Applications are now open for MAs and PhDs at the Sainsbury Research Unit. To foster study and research in the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the Sainsbury Research Unit offers scholarships ranging from full and part awards to study allowances.
Apply by 20 March 2025 to be considered for scholarships. Please contact sru.enquiries@uea.ac.uk for further information.
February 2025
Visual Pasts, Material Presents, Archival Futures: Postcolonial Temporalities in the Making - Graduate Conference 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.
