European Alliances of Academies: Contested Histories, Shared Futures (29 June 2022)
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Date: 29/06/2022

From Tuesday 28 June 28 till Wednesday 29 June, the third conference of the European Alliance of Academies will take place at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. The European Alliance is a transnational network that advocates for the freedom of the arts.

This conference will focus on the many ways in which cultural institutions deal with their troubled, if not to say controversial histories.

How do institutions deal with the broad wish to investigate their own pasts? What does this mean, for instance, for the name of an art institution? What are the consequences for collections? In what way do artists give new meaning to controversial monuments in public space? And, what can we learn from their activities in regards to other domains of society?

Over the course of two days artists, writers, curators and policy makers will shed light on these and many other questions. The aim of the meeting is to think about a shared future for Europe.