A few months ago I was invited to present at a symposium organized around the Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self exhibition at the International Center of Photography, which just opened this month. (See Holland Cotter's review in the New York Times late last week.) The accompanying book, now out on Harry N. Abrams, is edited by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis.
It's called "Visualizing Race in American Photography: An Interdisciplinary Symposium" and will be held at the Columbia Law School (410 W. 116th St.) on Feb. 7th. I'm going to be on a panel entitled "Considering the Archive" with Ken Gonzales-Day, Maurice Wallace and Laura Kleger. I'm mistakenly credited as being from UC Berkeley on the website -- go Gators! =)
The other two panels are entitled "Transdisciplinary Relevance of Racial Imagery" (Kara Walker, Kellie Jones, Deborah Poole and Jose Esteban Munoz) and "Looking into the Future: Race and Digital Imaging" (Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Maria Fernandez, Lisa Nakamura and Tom Foster).