Live Conversations: Museums as Spaces for Dialogue

Join V&A Assistant Curator of Africa and Diaspora, Donata Miller and Shelley Angelie Saggar, researcher and museum worker, as they discuss the potential of museums as spaces of dialogue, debate and discussion. With a particular focus on how these organisations explore and present colonial histories.

Live Conversations are devised in collaboration with the V&A Youth Collective exploring topical themes important to the group.

Donata is Assistant Curator, Africa and Diaspora in the Art, Architecture, Photography, Design Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is a London-based Curator, project manager and co-founder of the Museum of Dissent collective, with research interests in Black British history and contemporary collecting. She frequently engages with projects concerning the presence and power of the African, Caribbean, and East Asian diaspora.

Shelley Angelie Saggar is a researcher and museum worker. Her PhD explores contestations and reclamations of the museum in contemporary Native American and Maori literature and film and she also works at the Science Museum, where her focus is on managing culturally sensitive items in the historical medical collections. She is the founder of The Decolonial Dictionary and can be found on Twitter @j4lebi

This free event is aimed at 16-24 year olds. Book a ticket to get details on how to join the Zoom event.

The V&A Young People's Programme is supported by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.