Talks
Are reparations possible in a world still stealing?
EGYPT. Al Nazla. August 20, 2013. A local resident stands at the entrance to the Virgin Mary church in the village of Al Nazla, about 120KM outside of Cairo. The church was burned and looted by an alleged mob of pro-Muslim Brotherhood residents of the village. Photo: Moises Saman
While museums debate returning artefacts, coltan mines fuel wars in the Congo. While conferences discuss postcolonial reparations, Sudan’s gold finances its own destruction. Ibrahim Mahama’s “reverse restitution” asks us to look at the empire’s ruins - but what about the ruins being made right now? Join Hekayyatna for an evening exploring what justice, repair, and restitution mean when extraction never stopped, when the Global Majority is still being colonised, and when tomorrow’s debts are being written in today’s conflicts.
Doors open at 5.30pm; talks starts at 6pm and finishes at 7.30pm.
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The Bartlett School of Architecture
Talks
Editors Shirley Surya and Li Hua of How Modern join the Bartlett’s Guang Yu Ren in conversation, followed by a response from Azadeh Zaferani. Together, they explore architecture in China (1949–1979), challenging assumptions about socialist modernity through new perspectives on agency and design.