123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): History, Museums, and the Politics of Memory: The Congo in Belgium after <i>King Leopold's Ghost</i> (Presidential)

AHA Session 152

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

New York Ballroom West (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Debora Silverman, University of California at Los Angeles

Commentator:

Edward G. Berenson, New York University

Reflections on the Writing and Reception of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild, San Francisco, California

The Violence of Collecting: Objects, Images, and People from Colonial Congo
Boris Wastiau, Museum of Ethnography, Geneva

"The Congo I Presume": Tepid Revisionism at the Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren 1910–2005
Debora Silverman, University of California at Los Angeles

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History, Museums, and the Politics of Memory: The Congo in Belgium after King Leopold's Ghost (Presidential)