Songo - Houses, Generations and Transformations
Exhibition 1 April - 31 October 2010 - Ann Cassiman
What is a house? What is living? How can a house be a body? What does ‘modern’ mean in rural Africa? How are local and global worlds linked with each other?
Dwellings and extended families
The answers to all these questions can be found in the exhibition SONGO - houses, generations and transformations in the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal ( The Netherlands) from 1 April to 31 October. This exhibition is based on years of anthropological research and,...
A documentary by Filip De Boeck
In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, children and youngsters have taken over the management of death. The dead have become their ‘toy’, and the coffin has become like a football that one tosses up and plays around with. ‘Cemetery State’ observes how these young gravediggers, singers and drummers use the body of the dead as an alternative platform to attack and challenge their elders and to create their own (dis)order.
In ‘Cemetery...
International workshop Migration, Diversity and Spacemaking
13 November 2009
Organised by IMMRC, Social Sciences within the Framework of the Bilateral Agreement of KU Leuven-Tsinghua Co-operation
Organisers: Prof. dr. Ching Lin Pang, KU Leuven and Prof. Long Denggao, Tsinghua University
Date: November 13 2009
Venue: Entrance Hall, Faculty Social Sciences
This seminar is free, however pre-registration is required due to limited seating. Please send a mail before November 9 to Dra. Hannelore Roos: Hannelore.Roos@soc.kuleuven.be
Cities in the South revisited: New Interdisciplinaru Debates Series on-line Cities in the South are very often depicted as problematic or even pathological entities marked by lack, decay, scarcity and marginalisation, by increasing poverty and de-industrialisation, by violence and breakdown, or by an increasing lack of space and an ever-growing demographic density. Although to some extent this might be true, the use of the w...
