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The phrase correct history has many meanings. An early, sardonic use can be found in Naeem Mohaiemen’s 2014 exhibition and book Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Prisoners of Correct History), presented at the Kunsthalle Basel and curated by Adam Szymczyk. For the Vera List Center Forum 2024, Mohaiemen revisits this project in the present, inviting us to think about the corrosive state-enforced obedient and hagiographic history being churned out of universities and publishing houses—a form of historiography that insists on a single narrative at every bend of Bangladesh’s journey since the partition of British India—while considering the power-pleasing mania for enforcing “shothik itihash” (correct history).
The keynote is presented in part by the Helen Shapiro Lectureship.
Afterwards, continue celebrating with us as we host our annual VLC Forum Community Dinner and Party—free and open for all to attend.
This event is part of the Vera List Center Forum 2024: Correct History*, please visit here for more information.
Presented by Vera List Center for Art and Politics at Schools of Public Engagement.
This program will feature American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Wheelchair or mobility device seating is available. Please let us know if you need any accommodation when registering or by emailing vlc@newschool.edu.
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Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, drawings, and installations to research failed insurgencies and incomplete decolonizations—framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism. He is author of Midnight’s Third Child (Nokta, 2020) and Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014); co-editor (with Eszter Szakacs) of Solidarity Must be Defended (Tranzit/ Van Abbe/ Salt/ Tricontinental, 2020); editor of Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism (Drishtipat, 2010); and co-editor (with Lorenzo Fusi) of System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (Sylvana, 2007). His work has been exhibited at Mahmoud Darwish Museum (Ramallah), SALT Beyoglu (Istanbul), Vasas Federation of Metalworkers' Union (Budapest), Tate Britain (London), MoMA PS1 (New York), Abdur Razzaq Foundation (Dhaka), and documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel). He is a 2020 Nadir Mohamed Postdoctoral Fellow at Ryerson University, Toronto; 2020-2021 Heyman Center Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, New York; and a 2021 Senior Research Fellow at Lunder Institute of American Art, Colby College, Maine.
Warraba Weatherall is a Kamilaroi visual artist, Lecturer at Griffith University and PhD candidate, who is currently based in Brisbane. Weatherall’s artistic practice has a specific interest in archival repositories and structures, and the life of cultural materials and knowledges within these environments. He is also a lecturer for the Contemporary Australian Indigenous Arts (CAIA) degree at Griffith University’s, Queensland College of Art. Weatherall is passionate about shifting cultural norms within the Australian visual arts sector and contributes to the sector through artistic practice, education and curation.
