Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff is also Deputy Director of the International Association for Visual Culture and organized its first conference in 2012. His most recent book The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011) won the Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. He is currently working on expanding the project into a trilogy. The second part will deal with countervisuality in the global social movements of 2011, in which Mirzoeff was an active participant with Occupy Wall Street and Strike Debt. The concluding volume looks beyond the limits of visuality and visualizing to the possibilities of resonance, jubilee and mutual aid.

Date:          Thursday, 30 May 2013

Time:         12:00-13:30

Venue:       Merensky Library Auditorium, Main level, University of Pretoria

RSVP:       27 May at [email protected]

For more information, please contact Marinda Maree at [email protected] or (012) 420 2505.