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Reflecting the Times: Image-Making and Education in the Shadow of Genocide

Christophe Katrib: Shreepad Joglekar, Harrison Moenich, Stephanie Brown, Jason Ariel-Klein

Thursday, March 19 - 2:00PM to 4:00PM
Athens

This session asks a pressing question: What does it mean to be educators and image-makers a year and a half into a live-streamed genocide—one in which many of our institutions, including universities, are directly or indirectly complicit? Featuring educators and practitioners, this session invites those who refuse to normalize or turn away from mass atrocity, and who instead engage with it through their teaching, creative work, and critical practice. Together, we'll explore how photography, film, and pedagogy can reflect the truth of our times, resist erasure, and cultivate spaces of empathy, accountability, and solidarity. Drawing on artistic and educational philosophies grounded in authenticity and care, this panel will interrogate the role of the image and of the teacher in an age of mediated violence and institutional silence. As Nina Simone once said, "An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times." This session honors that duty—and calls others to do the same.