Wednesday, December 9, 12-1 PM EST

In her new book, Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America, Professor Bakirathi Mani (English Literature at Swarthmore College) investigates how images of empire haunt contemporary Asian American visual cultures.

In this lecture Bakirathi Mani is joined by artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Contemporary Curator Jodi Throckmorton for a discussion on Matthew’s series, An Indian From India in relation to Edward S. Curtis's photographs of Indigenous peoples and Mani’s recent publication.

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