Our past events include open lectures, seminars, workshops and symposia, organised by the UAL Transnational Art, Identity and Nation research centre members, associates and students.
Recent TrAIN events
2022-2023
Revisit latest open lectures, seminars, workshops and symposia, organised by the UAL Transnational Art, Identity and Nation research centre.
In 2022-2023, TrAIN hosted indigenous artist Daiara Tukano, theorist Moacir dos Anjos, curator Shaheen Merali and mixed-media artist Marcelo Silveira.
consent to not be a single being: Worlding through the Caribbean
consent not to be a single being: Worlding Through the Caribbean takes the Caribbean and Caribbean thought as a starting point to reconsider global histories of art and contemporary public cultures.
Drawing on the foundational work of Caribbean thinkers Édouard Glissant, Stuart Hall and Sylvia Wynter, the symposium explores their impact on our understanding of the material, epistemological and ontological repercussions of these histories.
Worldviews: Latin American Art and the Decolonial Turn
Online conference bringing together contributions from scholars, curators and artists to discuss how decoloniality acts as a frame of reference in the study of Latin American art.
Worldviews examined how such a frame has developed over the past decade, notably through a progressive interest in indigenous and/or Afro-descendent practices. It aims to question how critical discourse is constructed, while an ostensible divorce still prevails between scholarly debate and those insurgent social forces that struggle against marginalisation and racism.
Postsocialism and Art
The Post-socialism and Art project aims to develop further relations between Eastern and Western experiences of colonialism.
Providing a perspective on hidden legacy of ‘post-socialist human condition’ (Tlostanova, 2017) and little understood history of colonialism within the Eastern Bloc.