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In April 2007, Iziko Museums hosted the
first Iziko Freedom Day lecture delivered by Prof Nigel
Worden. The lecture marked the start of Iziko’s Freedom Project, an
ongoing programme that commemorates the impact of the slave trade and
highlights the links between historical slavery and contemporary human
rights violations. This year’s public lecture will be delivered by Dr
Antonia Malan, at 18h00 on 24 April 2008, at the
Iziko Slave
Lodge Museum in Cape Town.
In the lecture, entitled Unearthing Slavery: The Complex Role of
Archaeology, Dr Malan will unpack the complexity of this practice;
how it affects the way we view our past, present and perhaps our
future. A longstanding member of the Historical Archaeology Research
Group and the Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa, Dr
Malan will tap into her personal experience as an archaeologist and a
researcher, arguing that physical traces provide a particularly
powerful testimony to slave experiences and the atrocities and human
wrongs committed through slavery.
As a national heritage institution, Iziko Museums of Cape Town has
played a significant role in creating awareness of issues of slavery
and would like to extend its invitation to you to become part of this
public engagement.
To RSVP please contact Wandile Kasibe at Tel: 021 481 3804/13 or email
wkasibe@iziko.org.za or
publicprogs@iziko.org.za.
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UNEARTHING
SLAVERY: THE COMPLEX ROLE OF ARCHAEOLOGY |
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The
physical traces of slavery are often hard to interpret in the
absence of supporting historical evidence, but the remains that
have survived provide a powerful testimony to the social and
economic impacts and human suffering arising from enslavement.
Recent decades have witnessed an increase in attempts to
commemorate and memorialise slavery through a combination of
museum displays, historic site interpretation and public history
projects. The presentation of a series of case studies based on
archaeological excavations and archival research reveals the
often difficult, sometimes controversial, but always exciting
search for slave heritage in the Western Cape.
Click here
to view transcript of talk (copyright: Antonia Malan). |
The Iziko Freedom Project
An exciting
programme of slavery-related activities will be running at
Iziko as part of an ongoing initiative to raise
pubic awareness of the legacy of slavery and with an eye on the
commemoration of the first Cape Slave Rebellion of 1808.
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Click here
to find out about past programmes. |
