Past Event

We invite you to attend an upcoming virtual teach-in event, “Contemporary Documentary Images in the Classroom,” taking place via Zoom on Thursday, August 20th.

The event will feature a roundtable conversation hosted by Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande (English) with Monica Patterson (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and ICSLAC) and Aboubakar Sanogo (Film Studies, Institute of African Studies, ICSLAC). A general discussion will follow the roundtable.

The event is the first of a series, The Ethics of Pedagogy During Crisis, organized by the Culture and Crisis Collective. We are a small group of Carleton scholars committed to exploring and discussing the role of expressive culture as it responds to contemporary social crises.

For our first virtual teach-in we invite educators and students to attend a roundtable & discussion regarding the use of contemporary documentary images in our classrooms. Thus far, the events of 2020 have generated an unprecedented number of documentary images that proliferate in popular contexts. Often, these images depict public and state violence against racialized bodies, race- and class-stratified responses to COVID-19, and sustained actions of political resistance. Now, more than ever, violent and distressing documentary images have become a routine aspect of students’ media engagement. The popular dissemination of these images, though encouraging in many respects, generates renewed anxieties around the ethics of sharing visual documentary online and in the classroom.

For further information please see the poster. We hope to see you there!