Friday, April 7, 2017
11:30am – 5:30pm
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Watch on Youtube - Panel 1
Watch on Youtube - Panel 2
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media, The Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies, Middle East Studies, and the Photographic Archives Research Group (PARG)
11:30 – Welcome
Refreshments
12-2:15 Panel 1
Sheila Pree Bright, Photographer
"From Abolitionist Movement to Black Lives Matter"
Michael Sawyer, Colorado College
"Meditations On Police Violence”
Anne McClintock, Princeton University
"Ghostscapes and Environmental Crises"
Chair: Ariella Azoulay
2:15-3:00 PM Lunch Break
3:15 – 5:30 PM Panel 2
Anthony Bogues, Brown University
"Blackness and the radical imagination: Rethinking freedom"
Danielle Jackson, Bronx Documentary Center
"New Documents"
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
"The Beauty of the Ungovernable"
Chair: Beshara Doumani