Join us for a book talk with Kimberly Juanita Brown, to celebrate the publication of Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual. Kimberly Juanita Brown serves as the inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College, she is working at the intersection of contemporary literature of the Black diaspora and visual culture studies.
About the book: Photography's history, is inextricably linked to colonialism and white supremacy. Illustrating the global nature of antiblackness that pervades photographic archives of the present and the past, Mortevivum reveals how we live in a repetition of imagery signaling who lives and who dies on a gelatin silver print—on a page in a book, on the cover of newspaper, and in the memory of millions.
Light refreshments will be served and copies of their books will be available for purchase. This event is sponsored by the Ifill Dean's Office and the Interdisciplinary Minor in Cinema and Media Studies. You're all welcome and we encourage you to register in advance through the link below.