In her talk “Defining the Present, Archiving the Past,” Mitra Abbaspour maps the relationship between contemporary artists' use of historic photograph archives and the history told by the pictures themselves. This talk is presented in conjunction with Christian Palestinian Archive: A Project by Dor Guez, on view at The James Gallery April 8–June 4, 2016.

Cosponsored by the Mediating the Archive Mellon Seminar in Public Engagement and Collaborative Research in the Humanities, The Ph.D. Program in Art History, and The Middle East and Middle East American Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

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