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16-17 Octobre | 16-17 October<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Iyatsiba Lab, Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape<\/h2>\n\n\n
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\u00ab Looking Together \u00bb est un atelier international d’histoire et de th\u00e9orie visuelles (16-17 octobre 2026). Il explore une approche des archives visuelles, des histoires migratoires et des survivances imp\u00e9riales, formul\u00e9e par l’anthropologue des m\u00e9dias Zeynep G\u00fcrsel. Regarder ensemble, par exemple des portraits d’anc\u00eatres oubli\u00e9s, fait affleurer des souvenirs et des t\u00e9moignages, et rapproche des regards pluriels dans un m\u00eame espace. Cette approche invite \u00e0 revoir la notion de \u00ab regard \u00bb au singulier, \u00e0 d\u00e9passer la seule vue pour penser aussi le toucher, l’ou\u00efe et d’autres modes d’appr\u00e9hension sensibles, et \u00e0 interroger les fronti\u00e8res entre humain et non-humain, entre \u00e9chelles de temps et entre disciplines.<\/p>\n

L’atelier r\u00e9unit chercheur\u00b7ses, artistes et archivistes autour de photographies et d’autres archives (lettres, m\u00e9moires, r\u00e9cits familiaux) issues de collections africaines et d’archives de la migration. Il met en dialogue le fonds Bouba Tour\u00e9 (Paris), les archives de Mayibuye et plusieurs studios photographiques du Cap, ainsi que les mat\u00e9riaux apport\u00e9s par les participant\u00b7es, dans un contexte de tensions x\u00e9nophobes accrues en Afrique du Sud. L’IFAS-Recherche est heureux d’\u00eatre partenaire de cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Looking Together” is an international workshop in Visual History and Theory (16-17 October 2026). It explores an approach to visual archives, migration histories and imperial afterlives developed by media anthropologist Zeynep G\u00fcrsel. Looking together, for instance at unknown or forgotten portraits of ancestors, stirs recollection and elicits testimony, bringing plural gazes into a shared space. The workshop invites participants to question the singular “gaze”, to move beyond sight towards touch, hearing and other multi-sensory ways of apprehending images, and to rethink the boundaries between the human and more-than-human, between different scales of time, and between disciplines.<\/p>\n

It brings together researchers, artists and archivists around photographs and related archives (letters, memoirs, family stories) from African collections and archives of migration. The programme puts the Bouba Tour\u00e9 collections (Paris) in conversation with the Mayibuye Archive and several photo studios in Cape Town, alongside what participants bring, at a time of heightened xenophobic tension in South Africa. IFAS-Research is delighted to be a partner of this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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