For the exhibition Foreign Land, VU ART SCIENCE gallery and 3D invite artists and researchers to explore the concept of migration. In a series of ART SCIENCE dialogues we hope to develop a better understanding of migration and its different motivators, history, religion, economic changes, war and colonialism.

The first dialogue will focus on artist Abul Hisham and his artwork Forgotten Prayers Of The Nameless And Unidentified. Together with Ulbe Bosma, Aleeha Ali and Laurens Minnema Hisham will enter into dialogue on the topic of history and religion in the context of migration. The audience is invited to participate in this discussion.

About the researchers

Ulbe Bosma is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of International Comparative Social History at VU Amsterdam. His work is on colonial and postcolonial history, commodity production, migration, and slavery.

Aleeha Z. Ali is a Pakistani anthropologist based at VU Amsterdam. Her ongoing PhD is an ethnography of Shi’ism and digitization that explores ritual, sensory experience and authenticity. Through her Substack blog, she explores sensuous writing as (auto)ethnographic practice and method of alternative knowledge-creation.

Dr. Lourens Minnema, associate professor Religious Studies at VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College, specialized in cross-cultural comparisons of religions and religious phenomena worldwide and throughout history.

Programme

16.00 VU ART SCIENCE gallery (NU Building): viewing of Forgotten Prayers Of The Nameless And Unidentified with artist Abul Hisham

16:30 3D (W&N Building): ART SCIENCE dialogue with speakers and audience

17:30 Closing and after talk