We are pleased to announce that CIFA will act as a partner for UN-CENSOR-ING: Cultural Heritage Network Symposium. Supported by the Department of Digital Humanities in King’s College London, UN-CENSOR-ING: Cultural Heritage Network Symposium will take place online from 12pm to 5pm on 12 March 2024. The symposium is accompanied by four screening evenings throughout March in London. The film season will feature films that either engage with the topic of censorship and its direct and residual effects or have been subjected to censorship. The Second Interrogation (Wang Tuo, 2023), collected by CIFA, will be screened as part of this film season.
The symposium brings a diversity of views, expertise, experiences, and institutional affiliations to present, reflect, provoke, and enlarge on the topics of censorship, its impact on cultural heritage, and the ways in which cultural heritage professionals, researchers, and artists deal with, resist, challenge, or undo the effects of censorship across space, time, and cultures. The dimensions considered here, include cultural, political, aesthetic, and legal aspects of censorship as well as diverse scholarly and creative practices of critical engagement with censorship, such as archival work or filming as a form of reclaiming censored memory, identity, and space. The presenters and audience will be brought together during a roundtable to consider the paradox of censorship of being suppressive, defacing, mutilating, and yet fostering creative resistance, cultural memory, and social progress while reflecting on the legacies and effects of cultural heritage censorship, both historic and emerging digital forms, on memory, identity, attention, and space.
To attend the symposium, please register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkd-yurz8rHNZFdfwO7PTqWQ_RgGPZ9ixj