Symposium, John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center
March 18-19, 2011
Convened by Ruti Talmor in connection with the exhibition Possible Cities, the 2011 Mellon Symposium Imaging Africa brings together leading curators, filmmakers, critics, and scholars to discuss the status of African visual culture in the contemporary moment. John Akomfrah, Awam Amkpa, Jennifer Bajorek, and Renée Mussai will articulate the roles such culture has been made to serve in the past and will chart the spaces available for African visual culture on the global stage.