March Meeting 2023: The Postcolonial Constellation: Art, Culture, Politics after 1960

Christopher J. Lee is Professor of African History, World History and African Literature at The Africa Institute, Sharjah.

Sonal Khullar is W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Matthew Lutton has directed and created more than 45 productions, ranging from re-inventions of Australian classic stories, grand opera, adaptions of classic novels and dance theatre.

Zeina Maasri is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol.

Salwa Mikdadi’s research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Arab world, Arab art institutions, gender and politics in art and museums and their visitors.

Pamela Nguyen Corey researches and teaches modern and contemporary art history, focusing on Southeast Asia within broader transnational Asian and global contexts.

Anissa Rahadiningtyas is an art historian currently working as an Assistant Curator of Islamic aesthetics in modern and contemporary Southeast Asia at the National Gallery of Singapore.

AbdouMaliq Simone’s research is focused on the explorations of (non)human life in an era of extensive urbanisation, as well as the infrastructures and politics of urban popular economies across different geographies.

Terry Smith is Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Sydney, and Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh.

Simon Sien Yong Soon is Senior Lecturer in art history at the Visual Art Studies Program, Faculty of Creative Arts at Universiti Malaya.

John Tain is Head of Research at Asia Art Archive, as well a curator, advisor, lecturer and writer.

Jason Tamiru, a Yorta Yorta man, has worked with many of Melbourne’s most iconic performing arts companies, museums and festivals.

Gilane Tawadros examines issues of race, globalisation and modern art, with a particular focus on the ways in which artistic expression can provide fresh perspectives on the world.

Krista Thompson researches and teaches the modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, with an emphasis on photography.

Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Creative Writing and Africana Studies as well as the executive director of Express Newark, a centre for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University, Newark.