About
Unfinished Conversations is a new form of curatorial practice, public engagement, and programming to collect, give voice to, and provide a platform for untold histories, memories, and narratives related to the history of racialized slavery and its afterlives.
The UC project is primarily organized by the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (Simmons Center) in close collaboration with the John Hay Library at Brown University, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC), Iziko Slave Lodge Museum, South Africa; the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Belgium; Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire, Senegal; International Museum of Slavery, United Kingdom; and researchers in Brazil.
Digitally archived at the John Hay Library, the Unfinished Conversation Series is a living repository composed of more than 150 interviews that have taken place in nine languages across four continents. It draws inspiration from a documentary by black British artist John Akomfrah on the black British/Jamaican radical theorist Stuart Hall, who argued that the question of cultural identity is an “ever-unfinished conversation.”
Altogether, this oral history project was an experiment in collaborative curatorial practice informed by decolonial approaches that gave due respect to participants’ sensibilities and political subjectivities.
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