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In Conversation: The American Feminist Art Movement & its Impact on Contemporary Art

Join us for in-conversation event between Professor Judith K. Brodsky and Dr. Ferris Olin chaired by Marjorie W. Martay at Murray Edwards College.

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Visual Plague Photographic Database

Tue 22 October 2019

Alison Richard Building

In this seminar, Dr Christos Lynteris will discuss the challenges in putting together the online photographic database of the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic and ways in which this allows one to search a global archive of images.

Access to database: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275905

Readings:
Lynteris, C. and Prince, R. J. (2016) ‘Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives’, Visual Anthropology, 29(2): 101-117, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2016.1131104.
Evans, N. H. A., Poleykett, B. and Engelmann, L. (2016) ‘Fragments of the plague’, Limn, 6, https://limn.it/articles/fragments-of-plague/

Please contact karolina.kuberska@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk if you have trouble accessing the readings.

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Timing

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Tue 22 October 2019 12:00PM - 1:30PM

Venue

Address: Alison Richard Building
Seminar Room SG2
Sidgwick Site
7 West Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9DT