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The Memory of Trees 

by Eduardo Cadava 

April 1, 4:30-6:00pm, Murray Hall 302 

Please join us for a lecture by Prof. Eduardo Cadava (Princeton), on trees in the work of the Argentinian photographer Marcelo Brodsky, and the issue of the disappeared in Argentina.

Prof. Eduardo Cadava has written extensively on literature, philosophy, photography, architecture, music, democracy, war, memory and forgetting, race and slavery, human rights and citizenship, and the ethics of decision. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Princeton UP), Emerson and the Climates of History (Stanford UP), and, with Fazal Sheikh, of Fazal Sheikh: Portraits (Steidl). He also has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject? (Routledge), Cities Without Citizens (The Slought Foundation and the Rosenbach Museum), a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly entitled And Justice for All?: The Claims of Human Rights (Duke UP), and The Itinerant Languages of Photography (Princeton University Art Museum and Yale UP). He has co-curated installations and exhibitions at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and the Princeton University Art Museum, and he has co-produced and co-edited a DVD entitled Unpacking Derrida's Library (Slought Foundation and PIIRS). A collection of his essays on photography will appear under the title La imagen en ruinas in 2015, and his Paper Graveyards: Essays on Art and Photography is forthcoming.