We invite you to an open discussion on questions concerning 'loose ethnographic objects' in personal paper and image archives, and on the challenges of transforming colonial collection narratives.

This roundtable seminar with Job Amupanda, Lesley Blaauw & Andre du Pisani (University of Namibia) is part of the Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium.

The archive, never neutral and the product of power relations, is an important resource for remembering the past. In more recent times colonial archives have become sites of critical reflection and vigorous artistic interventions.