[acc-cca-l] Race in Media and Film Annual Lecture: Mark Sealy, Dec 2

[Julia Chan]

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are delighted to share news of the Department of Communication, Media and Film’s 2022 Race in Film and Media Lecture. Please see the event details below: this lecture should be of great interest to anyone interested in the politics of visual representation, racial justice, and critiques of colonialism.

This online event is free and open to all. We hope to see you there, and we encourage you to share this invitation with your students and your networks.

RACE, RIGHTS & REPRESENTATION

A lecture by Mark Sealy, OBE

Author of Photography: Race, Rights and Representation (2022) and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2019), and Executive Director of Autograph.

Date and time: Friday, December 2, 12:00-1:30pm MT

Location: Online via Zoom

In this talk, Mark Sealy will discuss his curatorial work as a visual cosmology that spans notions of time, place, and history. Drawing on his experiences as a leading writer on photography and as the Executive Director of Autograph, an organization championing photography that explores issues of race, identity, representation, and social justice, Sealy will engage with artists and exhibitions that offer audiences the opportunity to travel intellectually beyond the mundane and familiar within cultural politics. Challenging the Eurocentric bias that has shaped photography since its origins, the artists Sealy will discuss move us into new visual realms and political conjunctures that openly engage with both old and new knowledge formations concerning photographic practices, opening up new ways of seeing race, place, human rights, and identity politics.



About the Speaker

Mark Sealy, OBE is Executive Director of Autograph (1991- ) and Professor, Photography, Rights and Representation at University Arts London - London College of Communication, affiliated with the Photography Archive and Research Centre.

Sealy is interested in the relationship between art, photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has written for many of the world’s leading photographic journals, produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide. In addition, he is an advisor to several leading cultural institutions, including the Tate, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

Sealy’s critical writings on photography have been published by Lawrence and Wishart. Photography: Race, Rights and Representation was published in 2022 and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time was published in 2019.

To join this event via Zoom, please register here:

https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdeypqT4vGNHKNj3XfZreYZKzitq59q_F

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For any questions pertaining to this event, please contact julia.chan at ucalgary.ca<mailto:julia.chan at ucalgary.ca> or annie.rudd at ucalgary.ca<mailto:annie.rudd at ucalgary.ca>.



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Julia Chan, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film
University of Calgary
e: julia.chan at ucalgary.ca<mailto:julia.chan at ucalgary.ca>
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The University of Calgary is located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations), as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.
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