About the Event
In her talk, Kimberly Juanita Brown will examine photography's long history as tethered to global histories of antiblackness that have ritualized ways of seeing for the viewing public. What she calls a "cartography of the ocular" is unpacked as one of the important ways to measure legibility in images of violated black subjects. What can we know about the span and the reach of photography's extended life, and how is this related to the world we live in today?
Kimberly Juanita Brown will use her talk to explore the intentional foreclosure of possibility for black subjects in photographs disseminated through the media. In conversation with BAA Director Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt (LMU Munich), Brown will then engage with some of the aspects she has talked about in more depth.
Image: Karolinensaal ©Leonhard Simon
About Kimberly Juanita Brown
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Kimberly Juanita Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College. In her research, she engages with the intersection of African American/African diaspora literature and visual culture studies, focusing in particular on the relationship between visuality and black subjectivity. Her latest book, Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (MIT Press, 2024) explores the relationship between photography and histories of antiblackness on the cusp of the twenty-first century.
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Location
Amerikahaus Munich
Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, Munich
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089 55 25 37-42
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