Panel One - Wednesday, April 7

(1:10 – 3pm EST)

Abbreviated (10 – 15 minute) summaries of pre-circulated papers, followed by discussion/Q&A

Nicholas Mirzoeff

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An Antiracist Way of Seeing: Notting Hill and Critical Visuality
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is a visual activist, working at the intersection of politics, race and global/visual culture. In 2020-21 he is ACLS/Mellon Scholar and Society fellow in residence at the Magnum Foundation, New York.

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

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The Arena of Suspension: Carrie Mae Weems, Bryan Stevenson, and the “Ground” in the Stand Your Ground Law Era
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an associate professor at Harvard University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of African and African American Studies. She is the founder of the Vision and Justice Project.

Panel Two - Friday, April 9th

(1:10 – 3pm EST)

Abbreviated (10 – 15 minute) summaries of pre-circulated papers, followed by discussion/Q&A

Erina Duganne

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There was no record of her smile: Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto
Erina Duganne is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas State University. Her research and teaching focus on intersections between aesthetic experiences and activist practices as well as race and representation.

Karen Strassler

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Beyond Atrocity: Reparation and the Mournful Image
Karen Strassler is Professor of Anthropology at CUNY’s Queens College and the Graduate Center. Her research interests include photography, visual and media culture, violence and historical memory.

Jennifer Raab

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Photography and the Crimes of War
Jennifer Raab is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University and a faculty affiliate of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.

Panel Three - Friday April 9th

(1:10 – 3pm EST)

20-minute presentations, followed by discussion/Q&A

Nancy Davenport

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Nancy Davenport’s work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, the Liverpool Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial, the Sao Paulo Biennial, the International Center of Photography in NY and the National Gallery of Canada.

Kaja Silverman

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Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Professor Emerita of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Kaja Silverman is the author of nine books: The Miracle of Analogy, or The History of Photography, Part 1 (2015); Flesh of My Flesh (2009); James Coleman (2002); World Spectators (2000); Speaking About Godard (with Harun Farocki, 1998); The Threshold of the Visible World (1996); Male Subjectivity at the Margins (1992); The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1988); and The Subject of Semiotics (1983).