PANEL 2: Present Voices – Absent Histories in Colonial Archives

CHAIR & DISCUSSANT
Noémie Étienne

William Carruthers & Fayrouz Kaddal
INTERMITTENT PRESENCES: TRACING NUBIA’S SOUNDS AND VOICES

Lina Ounissi
ECHOES OF COEXISTENCE: MALOUF, MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF VOICE IN COLONIAL CONSTANTINE

Noémie Étienne is a full professor of cultural heritage and art history at the University of Vienna. In 2023, she received an ERC Consolidator Grant for her project ‘Global Conservation. Histories and Theories (16th–21st Century)’. Previously, she was an SNF-Professor of art history at the University of Bern and a specialist in the fields of heritage and museum studies. She led a research project on the exotic in Europe between 1600 and 1800. Her most recent book is entitled: The Art of the Anthropological Diorama (De Gruyter, 2021). It was originally published in French and entitled Les autres et les ancêtres. Les dioramas de Franz Boas et Arthur Parker à New York, 1900 (Les presses du réel, 2020). Her first book, The Restoration of Paintings in Paris, 1750–1815 was published in 2012 (Presses Universitaires de Rennes) and subsequently translated into English and published by Getty Publications in 2017.