The Royal Academy of Arts symposium, “Art, Colonialism, and Change” will present current research, on artworks from our colonial pasts and on the artists working today in dialogue with these works. Using artworks in the exhibition Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change, speakers will investigate themes of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity and belonging.

Speakers include Professor Grace Aneiza Ali, Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Dr. Mia L. Bagneris, Dr. Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Dr. Nika Elder, Dr. Zehra Jumabhoy, Professor Erica Moiah James, Dr. Elizabeth Robles and Dr. Mathura Umachandran.

We will also hear from exhibiting artists Olu Ogunnaike and Shahzia Sikander on how these themes inform their practice.