Event Report: REIMAGINING SUPPRESSED HISTORIES OF RACIAL VIOLENCE

https://cas.umkc.edu/shutz-lecture-series.html You will write a report on one of the two online events organized within the framework of the Shutz lectures
series Speak Up: Building Racial Justice through Art, Writing and Pedagogy (September 16 or November 4, 4.00-5.30pm). Deadlines vary based on the event
of choice for your report (see info below). The report will account for 10% out of your final grade. It should succinctly delineate: the main themes of the event
of choice the arguments set forward by the speakers about racial justice the histories of racial bias and violence referenced by the speakers the ways in
which the speakers demonstrate social responsibility through their respective practices If you opt for writing on the November 4 event concerning narratives
of racial violence, your report will be due on Sunday, November 7. To register for this event, visit: https://cas.umkc.edu/shutz-lecture-series.html (Links to an
external site.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 4.00-5.30pm REIMAGINING SUPPRESSED HISTORIES OF RACIAL VIOLENCE Artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien and
art historian Krista Thompson will explore how photographs have shaped the perception of Black subjects and historical events. . Engaging with past and
present histories of racism, they will explore how painful narratives of domination can be rewritten to account for the perspective of victims of social
injustice. The speakers will discuss how photographs are enlisted in the construction of historical evidence. They will address both how photographs can
consolidate falsehood and how they can shatter flawed assumptions. Julien will present his recent film installation Lessons of the Hour which reimagines
the life of statesman and freed slave Frederick Douglass. Interweaving poetic images of Douglass with his resonating statements on the struggle for
freedom, the work asks the viewer to become immersed in a historical re-enactment which is both aesthetically pleasing and psychologically disquieting.
Similarly concerned with how the past can be reassessed and reimagined, Krista Thompson will examine the circulation of a photograph depicting Paul
Bogle, the leader of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion, who called for justice for all the people of Jamaica. Discussing the disappearance of the photograph
from the national archive, she will address the function played by this fugitive image in state and popular understandings of the rebellion. Isaac Julien, artist
and filmmaker Krista Thompson, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University Moderator: Cristina Albu, Associate Professor of Art History, University of
Missouri – Kansas City

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