Françoise Vergès
Director
Maison des Civilisations et de l'Unité Réunionnaise
Scientific and Cultural
145 rue Jules Auber
Saint-Denis La Reunion
94700
France
http://www.regionreunion.com/fr/spip/spip.php?rubrique90
Françoise Vergès is a Reader at Goldsmiths College, London and the director of the scientific team of the forthcoming museum/ cultural center on Reunion Island, the MCUR. She has written extensively, both in French and English, on postcolonial theory, race, slavery and citizenship, and indiaoceanic processes of creolization. She has worked with artists such as Isaac Julien and Yinka Shonibare and has been involved in numerous artistic events.
Françoise will demonstrate A Postcolonial Museum of the Present. [Demonstration]
