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VIRTUAL EVENT: The human/animal redux in Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass
21 October 2020, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
In this webinar, Warren Crichlow considers Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass (2019), a multiscreen installation that meditates on Douglass.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Alison Brady
Frederick Douglass was a 19th century thinker of the black slave’s ontology, and pioneering orator on photographic perspectivism’s role in dismantling the black subject’s nonhuman socio-legal status in transatlantic slavery.
Crichlow will discuss underlying human/nonhuman proximities that Julien mobilises aesthetically to query personhood, interspecies relations, and racial hierarchies in the inconsolable present.
Links
- Tweet with #philofed
- Philosophy at the Institute of Education
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels
About the Speaker
Warren Crichlow
Associate Professor at York University, Toronto
Warren teaches cultural studies and education at York University.
Most recently, he co-edited 'Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization' (Peter Lang, 2020).
'A Grand Panorama: Isaac Julien, Frederick Douglass, and Lessons of the Hour' with Kass Banning is his most recent article.
Currently, he is co-editing a book on intersections of architecture and pedagogy in the prose-fiction of W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), tentatively titled 'Unsettling Complacency: Hope and Ethical Responsibility.'