Encounters with the African Archive
Saturday 10 November, 2012
9am - 5pm, $0/Rsvp 212-352-0683
NYU Silver Center, Jurow Lecture Hall
100 Washington Square East
In collaboration with Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography and Imaging and University College London, The Walther Collection will present a symposium titled "Encounters with the African Archive" on November 10, 2012 at New York University. This one-day event, coinciding with the exhibition series Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive at The Walther Collection Project Space, brings together leading international scholars to exchange, debate, and open up the categories--colonial, ethnographic, anthropological, and artistic--that are often used to describe historic and contemporary photographs of Africans.
The symposium will provide an opportunity for rethinking the African archive in relation to the concerns of contemporary critics and artists. It is co-chaired by Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at University College London, and Deborah Willis, Chair, NYU Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging, and is co-presented by the NYU departments of Africana Studies and the Institute for African American Affairs. Participants will include Awam Amkpa (NYU), Jennifer Bajorek (NYU), Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University), Christraud Geary (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Michael Godby (University of Cape Town), Erin Haney (George Washington University), Salah Hassan (Cornell University), Hlonipha Mokoena (Columbia University), Riason Naidoo (South African National Gallery), Gabi Ncobo (University of the Witswatersrand), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton University), and John Peffer (Ramapo College).
The symposium will provide an opportunity for rethinking the African archive in relation to the concerns of contemporary critics and artists. It is co-chaired by Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at University College London, and Deborah Willis, Chair, NYU Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging, and is co-presented by the NYU departments of Africana Studies and the Institute for African American Affairs. Participants will include Awam Amkpa (NYU), Jennifer Bajorek (NYU), Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University), Christraud Geary (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Michael Godby (University of Cape Town), Erin Haney (George Washington University), Salah Hassan (Cornell University), Hlonipha Mokoena (Columbia University), Riason Naidoo (South African National Gallery), Gabi Ncobo (University of the Witswatersrand), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton University), and John Peffer (Ramapo College).