Critical and Visual Studies Speaker Series: Tina Campt on "The Motion of Stillness: Diaspora, 'Stasis' and Black German Vernacular Photography"
7:54 PM
The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies' 2011-2012
Critical and Visual Studies Speaker Series
Presents
TINA CAMPT
"The Motion of Stillness: Diaspora, 'Stasis' and Black German Vernacular Photography"
Wednesday November 16th, 12.30-2 pm
ALUMNI READING ROOM
Pratt Library
TINA CAMPT
The Motion of Stillness: Diaspora, ‘Stasis’ and Black German Vernacular Photography
Tina
Campt is Director of Africana Studies and Professor of Africana and
Women’s Studies at Barnard College. Campt’s work theorizes gendered,
racial and diasporic formation in black communities in Germany, and
Europe more broadly. Her monograph, Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004),
examined the mutual constitution of racial and gendered formation among
German Blacks in the Third Reich. Campt has edited special issues of Feminist Review, Callaloo and small axe, and together with Paul Gilroy, co-edited the volume, Der Black Atlantik (2004). She has published numerous articles, including
her recent essay, “Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference and the Visual
Archive,” which appeared in 2009 in the journal Social Text. Her second book, Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe,
explores early twentieth century family photography of Black Germans
and Black Britons and will be published by Duke University Press in
January 2012.
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