Sunday, September 5 | 12:30 | Warszawa Room
How to talk about colonialism? A meeting with Professor Magdalena Horodecka and Aleksandra Wierucka PhD after the film NOTHING BUT THE SUN, dir. Arami Ullón
In Polish
Partner: Department of Ethnography of the National Museum in Gdańsk – the sponsor of the ETNOMATOGRAF award for the best film on ethnographic and anthropological issues.
The Gran Chaco area in Paraguay is the homeland of Ayoreo Indians. Tempted by the Christian missionaries with the visions of a better life and forced out of the forests by the settlers, they abandoned their natural world and replaced shamans with Bible. Mateo uses a cassette recorder from the 70s of the 20th century to record the tales and songs of his countrymen to save the memory of the tribe’s rites and myths. The film focused on a small, forgotten microcosm shows the catastrophic and irreversible effect of colonialism which ruins the indigenous community. How should we discuss colonialism today and what can we do for the traditional societies?
Guests:
Magdalena Horodecka – a literary scholar who puts particular emphasis on non-fiction literature. She works on hermeneutics, comparative literature, literature in the perspective of post-colonial research as well as literature as a record of intercultural dialogue.
Aleksandra Wierucka – cultural expert and anthropologist. She deals with anthropology of traditional societies, including their functioning in the contemporary world.
Host:
Anna Ratajczak-Krajka – an art historian, curator, researcher, art producer. The deputy director of the Chmura Visual Culture Foundation and the deputy director of Prom Kultura Association. A coordinator and curator of many exhibition, music, literary, research or educational projects. Currently, she works as museum custodian at the Ethnographic Department of the National Museum in Gdańsk.
