Organized in conjunction with the publication of two highly anticipated volumes: Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images, the first title in Aperture’s new Vision & Justice Series, and The Unseen Truth by Sarah Lewis. Race Stories anthologizes a collection of short essays that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture by award-winning historian, curator, and critic Maurice Berger (1956–2020). In The Unseen Truth, Lewis offers a probing historical analysis of the fictions that have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy in the United States. Framed by Berger and Lewis’s ever urgent contributions to thinking about race and representation in the US, this Forum will consider the role of cultural criticism in the work of examining social justice, equity, and democracy.
For this convening we are delighted to be joined by a group of distinguished speakers:
Dawoud Bey, artist
Vinson Cunningham, Staff writer and cultural critic, The New Yorker
Aruna D’Souza, writer and curator
Ava DuVernay, filmmaker and screenwriter
Awol Erizku, artist
Marvin Heiferman, writer and curator
Sherrilyn Ifill, The Vernon L. Jordan, Jr. Chair in Civil Rights, Howard University
Sarah Lewis, Founder of Vision & Justice and John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Siddhartha Mitter, writer and critic
Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
RaMell Ross, artist and filmmaker
Deborah Willis, University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
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