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Flow: black bodies and the practice of refusal

Hosted by the Department of Gender Studies and Feminist Review

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building,

Speaker

Professor Tina Campt

Professor Tina Campt

Chair

Dr Sadie Wearing

In this lecture, Tina Campt asks what kind of affective labor is required to grapple with the imperiled status of black life? Taking up Christina Sharpe's provocative injunction to "think juxtapositionally", the lecture considers the affective registers of black visuality that converge in a genre that Campt describes as still moving images. Still moving images demand our affective labor through their capacity to ‘touch or move’ us, as well as the requisite labor of managing, refusing or denying these affects. The lecture engages a series of still moving images of black life and the limits and boundaries created by its constituent antithesis – antiblackness.

Tina Campt is Claire Tow and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Barnard. Campt joined the Barnard faculty in 2010, prior to which she held faculty positions at Duke University, the University of California-Santa Cruz and the Technical University of Berlin. 

Sadie Wearing's (Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at LSE) research and teaching interests are in the critical analysis of literary, visual and media culture with specific interest in representations of aging, temporality and memory in both historical and contemporary contexts.

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