Keynote Speaker Françoise Vergès

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Keynote Speaker Françoise Vergès, Senior Fellow, Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization, UCL, London, UK.

Day 1 motto: Doing Less vs. Doing Differently

Keynote by Françoise Vergès: “Being Slow/Being Fast in Times of Counter-Revolution”

Senior Fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization, UCL (London), Françoise Vergès opens the day asking how does the museum resist the weird but effective marriage between far-right forces, conservatism, patriarchalism and individualism, libertarianism, and a free market? What will be the political economy of new models of museum making? How far can we go as we are confronting budget restrictions, structural racism, fascism, anti-migration politics, anti-intellectualism, and the cruelty and inhumanity of neoliberalism?