Gus Casely Hayford OBE in conversation with Prof. Christopher Cramer | Continuing the Conversations
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2020-11-04

This is a recording of a live event held on 28 July 2020, as part of the SOAS ‘Continuing the Conversations’ Alumni event series. 

SOAS Alumnus, curator, broadcaster and historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE was in conversation with his old friend and colleague, SOAS Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Christopher Cramer. 

Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE is leading the development of one of the most exciting cultural capital projects that has been undertaken by a national museum in recent years. Over the next five years The V&A will build a new museum and a collection centre to house a quarter of a million objects and almost a thousand archives in East London on the old Olympic Park. Here SOAS Professor Chris Cramer and Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE embark on a dynamic discussion Gus’s upcoming project, the future of museums and African art.

Credit: SOAS Alumni Network