Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Oct 16, 2017 | 6:00PM

The Institutional as Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection

Sara Ahmed

In the annual Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture, Sara Ahmed explores how institutions are built from small acts of use. The institutional becomes usual. What usually happens seems to keep happening without having to be made into official policy and sometimes even despite an official policy. We learn about the institutional (as usual) from those who […]

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normalization, resistance, Sara Ahmed
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Sep 14, 2017 | 6:00PM

Listening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt

Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas

What happens when we shift our way of engaging with photography? When we go beyond looking at images and, instead, listen to them? Tina Campt, director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, delves into lost archives of historically dismissed photographs to deepen our understanding of the lives of black subjects throughout the black […]

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Africana Studies, Black diaspora, colonialism, resistance, Tina Campt