ART SCIENCE dialogue Abul Hisham | History & Religion in Migration
As part of the public program for Foreign Land the VU ART SCIENCE gallery and 3D invite artists and researchers to explore the concept of migration. In a series of ART SCIENCE dialogues we hope to develop a better understanding of migration and its different motivators, history, religion, economic changes, war and colonialism.
The first ART SCIENCE dialogue will focus on artist Abul Hisham and his artwork Forgotten Prayers Of The Nameless And Unidentified. Together with Social Historian Ulbe Bosma and the audience, Hisham will enter into dialogue on the topic of history and religion in the context of migration.
Art highlights human experience, while science approaches the theme objectively. By bringing together different perspectives from art and science, Foreign Land aims to make a constructive contribution to the social debate on migration.
About the researchers
Ulbe Bosma is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of International Comparative Social History at VU Amsterdam. His work is on colonial and postcolonial history, commodity production, migration, and slavery.
Aleeha Z. Ali is a Pakistani anthropologist based at VU Amsterdam. Her ongoing PhD is an ethnography of Shi’ism and digitization that explores ritual, sensory experience and authenticity. Through her Substack blog, she explores sensuous writing as (auto)ethnographic practice and method of alternative knowledge-creation.
Dr. Lourens Minnema is associate professor Religious Studies at VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College, specialized in cross-cultural comparisons of religions and religious phenomena worldwide and throughout history.
Please register for this event here
16.00 VU ART SCIENCE gallery (NU Building): viewing of Forgotten Prayers Of The Nameless And Unidentified with artist Abul Hisham
16:30 3D (W&N Building): ART SCIENCE dialogue with speakers and audience
17:30 Closing and aftertalk