The Democratic Lens Scholar Lectures
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Examining how images have shaped America’s collective memory and inspired individuals to participate in civic life.
About this event
The Democratic Lens scholar lecture series examines how images have shaped America’s collective memory and inspired individuals to participate in civic life. Join us on November 20, 2022, from 10 am - 1:30 pm MT at Santa Fe, New Mexico's La Fonda on the Plaza to hear from leading scholars about how the photograph influenced material culture and the evolving relationship between democracy and civic engagement. Lectures are free and open to the public.
10-11 am | Photography & Restitution: The Civil Potential of the Image with Laura Wexler, Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University
11-12 pm | WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Empathy As A Perspective with Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator Emerita, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
12-1 pm | What Can’t Be Unseen: Photography & Activism with Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D., Dean, Yale School of Art, Yale University
1-1:30 pm| Q&A with Moderator Will Wilson, Photographer & Program Head of Photography, Santa Fe Community College
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Learn more online - www.thedemocraticlens.org
Image credit: I Am An American, Oakland, 1942 © Dorothea Lange, retrieved from the Library of Congress
