Lecture: Prita Meier, “Stilled Life: Photography and the Aesthetics of Dispossession in Colonial Zanzibar”

Date: 

Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 6:00pm

Location: 

Lower Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture presents

New Directions in Art History lecture series:

 

“Stilled Life: Photography and the Aesthetics of Dispossession in Colonial Zanzibar”

Prita Meier, PhD (Associate Professor, New York University)

April 8, 2020 at 6:00pm

Lower Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway

This is the third event of this year's New Directions in Art History: Lectures in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. With the generous support of the department, the lecture series aims to bring important new scholarship to the attention of the HAA community and give graduate students a chance to engage with innovative scholars. These lectures are also open to Harvard community and the public. 

ORGANIZER: Harvard Department of History of Art and Architecture

WEBSITE: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/lecture-prita-meier-%E2%80%9Cstilled-life-photography-and-aesthetics