SPE Events

May 11th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Virtual Event, Zoom

Bennie Flores Ansell: REUSE and REcontextualizing the Western Canon in Film

Bennie Flores Ansell deconstructs the tools of analog photography to create organic migration installations and unique objects. She achieves different effects through the reaction of varying light sources with reflections and mirrors, constructing distinct installations by configuring obsolete photographic materials as an ode to and...

May 29th, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST
Virtual Event, via Zoom

Defining Diné Legacies: The Friction Between the Fragmented Archive and Contemporary Photographic Practice

This panel explores the friction between the fragmented archive and contemporary Indigenous photographic practice in defining legacies for the Diné (Navajo) people. We follow the trajectory and historical frame(s) of the creation, archiving and circulation of 19th century photographs of Diné (Navajo), observing the nexus...

June 08th, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm EST
Virtual Event, via Zoom

Gazelle Samizay & Helena Zeweri: The Multiple Lives of the "Afghan Girl"

Lecture | Tuesday, June 8 | 7PM EST In 1985, National Geographic published an image of a young girl on its cover. With piercing green eyes and a loosely wrapped burgundy veil, the "Afghan girl," as she came to be known, riveted magazine readers.Since its publication,...