Join us for a meeting with Françoise Vergès! ✨ November 26, 6:00–7:30 pm 📍 The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw 🆓 Free admission. A meeting with Françoise Vergès – writer, political theorist, and curator whose work focuses on the legacy of slavery and colonialism, decolonial feminism, museums, and the climate crisis. The author of “A Programme of Absolute Disorder. Decolonizing the Museum” (2021) and “Decolonial Feminism” (2024) will discuss contemporary challenges arising from Europe’s and the world’s colonial past. The event will be conducted in English. ⎯⎯⎯ THE AUTHOR: - Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, anti-racist feminist, curator, and filmmaker. Her work combines postcolonial theory, decolonial feminism, and artistic practices. For the 2025 Bannister Fletcher Fellowship, she is organizing workshops on “Imagining the Post-Museum” in London (Whitechapel Gallery, Mosaic Room, and the Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization at UCL) and in Paris (Cité internationale des arts and ULIP). She was the co-curator and co-author of the first edition of La Ville dansée in Paris in 2024. She is currently working on a film about social struggles in Réunion and on her parents’ personal archive. HOST: - Magdalena Wróblewska is an art historian and museologist specializing in decolonial issues. She is the Director of the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Together with C. Ariese, she co-authored the book Practicing Decoloniality in Museums: A Guide with Global Examples. She publishes articles and books on photography. In 2023, she completed a research fellowship at the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
