Professor Annebella Pollen's covid-delayed inaugural professorial lecture will take place on 5 March in Brighton. She will be talking through and reflecting on some of her core interests and major projects of the last 20 years, and pose the questions: What kind of stories can historic images and objects tell us about the past? When objects and images are preserved, in personal collections or in institutional archives, what kinds of futures are they expected to serve? And what happens when those stories get lost, or those histories are forgotten?
For over two decades, Professor Pollen has built a series of studies that reinterpret undervalued collections and examine visual and material culture that has been pushed to the margins. From photographs found in end-of-life house clearances to the visual archives of utopian movements, she questions what gets wasted and saved, what gets culturally consecrated and what gets overlooked. The lecture reflects on how we use images and objects to narrate our lives, and how seeing and feeling historic images and objects can offer fresh perspectives for the present day.
The talk will be recorded and made available after the event.
Images, objects and their afterlives
Professor Annebella Pollen
Wednesday 5 March 2025 at 6.30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre,
University of Brighton, 58-67 Grand Parade,
Brighton, BN2 0JY
Free event. All are welcome, but register: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research/research-news/films-and-publications/inaugural-lectures/professor-annebella-pollen.aspx
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