NEXT EVENTS
September 12th, 2008 by Editor
Portraits on the Other Shore:
The International ‘Reminders’ Photojournalism Project
August 5th, 2008 by Editor
Co-sponsored by The Lively Arts program, Fine Arts Center, and the Department of Music and Dance, UMass Amherst
Wednesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., 601 Herter Hall
GABRIELA BULISOVA, George Mason University and Corcoran College of Art and Design.
SAYA NAMIKAWA, Translator for the Reminders Project A panel discussion on the power of photography to shape the value placed on the human lives in global politics. For more on the Reminders project, see http://reminders-project.org/
The 2008-09 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series will present Portraits on the Other Shore:The International ‘Reminders’ Photojournalism Project, a lecture and panel discussion led Professor Mary Wilson, Modern Middle East historian, UMass Amherst, and Gabriela Bulisova, originally from Czechoslovakia, a documentary photographer for the International Reminders Project of the “Guests” in Syria—Iraqi refugees who have fled the war and sectarian violence and relocated to Damascus. Bulisova teaches photography and photojournalism at the George Mason University in Virginia and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC.