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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Venus symposium videos available online

VENUS 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot,” An Interdisciplinary Symposium – Welcome from NYU Photography and Imaging on Vimeo.

Watch the webcast: Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity

March 9, 2010
Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity

Watch online: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/video/photography-and-diaspora-critical-discourse-africa-visual-culture-modernity-moderated-renee-mu
Download: http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.dubois.org/PHOTGRAPHY_AND_AFRICA_20100309-iPhone.m4v

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
In conjunction with the the exhibit, “James Barnor: Ever Young” (on display in the Du Bois Institute’s Rudenstine Gallery during the spring 2010 academic term).
Moderated by Renee Mussai, Archive Project Manager, [...]

Baartman Colloquium–online (updated)

This colloquium is now available online at http://arc.psu.edu/initiatives/sara-baartman

LOOKING BACK/MOVING FORWARD: THE FUTURE OF AFRICANA/BLACK STUDIES

AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER
CORNELL UNIVERSITY

SAVE THE DATE!
LOOKING BACK/MOVING FORWARD:
THE FUTURE OF AFRICANA/BLACK STUDIES
A CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION
OF THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF
AFRICANA STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER
APRIL 15-17, 2010
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM
AFRICANA CENTER
In celebration of its 40th Anniversary, Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University will organize a major conference entitled Looking Back/Moving Forward: The Future of Africana/Black [...]

None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa

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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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    • Taking a Break February 8, 2012
      Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
    • A New Mission for Aperture? February 8, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 2012
      Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]


  • "Dedicated to the real photographers of the world—to those who, with their second-hand equipment and their makeshift darkrooms, are today fighting their solitary battles with their recalcitrant medium, not for money or for glory, but because they would rather make pictures than anything else in the world." - William Mortensen
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