When:
Monday, May 11, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Where: University Hall, 201, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Katelyn Marie Rashid
(847) 467-5314
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Professor Ali Behdad
John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature and Department Chair
UCLA
Title: “Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East”
Abstract: Arguing that at the origin of photography is the Middle East, Professor Behdad will address some of the methodological and theoretical challenges in studying the large archive of photographic images of the Middle East by European and indigenous photographers in the region.”
Lunch Served