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SUMMARY:Visual Futures: Mapping Truth and Dissonance in a Digitally Fixate
 d Generation - Dr Vuyiswa Lupuwana\, University of Cape Town
DTSTART:20250506T160000Z
DTEND:20250506T173000Z
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CONTACT:123868
DESCRIPTION:In this Inaugural Lecture of the Mapping Africa's Endangered A
 rchaeological Sites and Monuments project (https://maeasam.org)\, Dr Vuyis
 wa Lupuwana engages with the virtual continuity of canon myths in an age o
 f digital mutability and active forgetting\, with a particular focus on ex
 amples drawn from South Africa and other parts of the continent. Heritage 
 and visuality have always been intertwined. Entangled in historic interpre
 tations of the past – and particularly\, the interpretations of 'the oth
 er’ – are several canon stereotypes or myths that have persisted in th
 eir pervasive ability to indoctrinate the public. The concept of visuality
  will be discussed through visual media such as historical photographs\, s
 ketches and cinema against the backdrop of the histography of the anthropo
 logical and archaeological disciplines. It will be argued that visuality
 ’s power and its problematics are in the conscious and unconscious after
 lives that connect it with interpretations of the past\, public consumptio
 n of the past\, and the processes of remembering and forgetting.
LOCATION:Online or In-Person at McDonald Institute for Archaeological Rese
 arch\, Courtyard Building CB2 3ER
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