An Evening with Tina Campt: Black Feminist Visual Culture

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Dr. Tina Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. She began her career as a historian of modern Germany, earning a Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. She is one of the founding scholars of Black European Studies, and her early work theorized gender, racial, and diasporic formation in black communities in Europe and southern Africa, with an emphasis on the role of vernacular photography in historical interpretation. Her recent scholarship bridges the divide between vernacular image-making in black diasporic communities and the interventions of black contemporary artists in reshaping how we see ourselves and our societies.

Sponsoring Departments: The Graduate School, Department of Anthropology, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, French & Italian Studies, Gender Women & Sexuality Studies, German Studies, the iSchool, the Southeast Asia Center, and UW Libraries