On 27 April, Daniela Agostinho will give a keynote titled "Curating Ghostly Matters: Tracing, Spectral Evidence, and Colonial Archives during the conference Tracing Temporalities, Unearthing Archives". As museums, archives, and other cultural institutions make their colonial collections digitally available online—giving contested materials a digital afterlife—unresloved histories and new ethical matters are bound to emerge. What can be traced, remembered, and imagined through archive rife with omission and harm? And how do we care for the presences and absences they conjure? In this presentation, Agostinho reflects on the exhibition for Alberta and Victor: a collection of conjurings and opacities, by visual artist La Vaughn Belle, that she curated with ARIEL – Feminisms in the Aesthetics in Copenhagen (2021). Grappling with the questions raiseed by the temporality of colonial collections, the presentation think with ghostly matters and caret together to consider the challenges and possibilities of surfacing past and ongoing coloniality through various traces.

Full abstract of the keynote can be found on the conference website here.