Natalie Bayer

Robert Collis

In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society--known variously as the Illumin�s d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Union--that flourished across Europe between 1779 and 1807. Based on hitherto neglected archival material, this study provides a wealth of fresh insights into a group that included members of various Christian confessions from countries spanning the length and breadth of the Continent. The founding members of this society forged a unique group that incorporated distinct strands of Western esotericism (particularly alchemy and arithmancy) within an all-pervading millenarian worldview. Collis and Bayer demonstrate that the doctrine of premillennialism--belief in the imminent advent of Christ's reign on Earth--soon came to constitute the raison d'�tre of the society. Using a chronological approach, the authors chart the machinations of the leading figures of the society (most notably the Polish gentleman Tadeusz Grabianka). They also examine the way in which the group reacted to and was impacted by the tumultuous events that rocked Europe during its twenty-eight years of existence. The result is a new understanding of the vital role played by the so-called Union within the wider millenarian and illuministic milieu at the close of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth century.

The Avignon Society and Illuminism in Europe

Initiating the Millennium

Nora Sternfeld

Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski

"The anthology Curating as Anti-Racist Practice reflects upon museums and exhibitions from the perspective of postcolonial museology and critical migration and regime research. Beyond critical analysis, this collection of texts is about collecting strategies and forms of action that make it possible to think of curating as anti-racist practice. Using as springboards the intersections between social battlefields and curatorial practices, as well as a focus on agency, this book examines the relationality of struggles for and against representation. Therefore, the focus is on discursive strategies of resistance, contact zones and approaches to re-appropriation". [publisher].

Curating As Anti-Racist Practice

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

Die Publikation reflektiert Aufgaben, Strategien und Handlungsformen von Museen und Ausstellungen aus der Perspektive der postkolonialen Museologie sowie der kritischen Migrations- und Regimeforschung. Die kritische Analyse der existierenden Ansätze soll Kuratieren als antirassistische Praxis denkbar machen. Orientiert auf Handlungsmacht und auf die Schnittstellen zwischen sozialen Konfliktfeldern und kuratorischen Praxen, nehmen die Autoren das Verhältnis von Kämpfen für und gegen die Repräsentation von spezifischen Themen in den Blick. In diesem Sinne stehen Strategien des Talking Back ebenso im Fokus wie Kontaktzonen und Ansätze der Wiederaneignung.

Natalie Bayer

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