Photography, South Africa, Legacies
Join us at the Yale University Art Gallery for a series of engaging talks and conversations with artists, curators, historians, and scholars exploring photography, land dispossession, and the role of archives in South Africa.
This event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive and moderated by exhibition co-curators Judy Ditner and Leslie M. Wilson. Exhibition co-organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid.
Symposium made possible by generous support from Jane P. Watkins, M.P.H. 1970, and the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.
Free and open to the public.
Schedule
9:30 am
Welcome and Introduction
- Judy Ditner, the Richard Benson Curator of Photography and Digital Media, Yale University Art Gallery
- Brenda Goldblatt, David Goldblatt’s daughter
10:00 am
Panel 1: “Photographs of Dispossession”
- Neelika Jayawardane, Professor of English, State University of New York at Oswego
- Dan Magaziner, Professor of History, Yale University
- Thuto Thipe, Assistant Professor of African History, University of Chicago
11:00 am
Conversation
- Jabulani Dhlamini, photographer
- Leslie M. Wilson, Associate Director, Academic Engagement and Research, Art Institute of Chicago
12:00 pm
Break
1:00 pm
Panel 2: “Portraits of Resistance”
- Antawan Byrd, Assistant Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, and Associate Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago
- Oluremi Onabanjo, the Peter Schub Curator of Photography, Museum of Modern Art
- Drew Thompson, Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Black Studies, Bard Graduate Center
2:00 pm
Roundtable: All participants