From the Brown Arts Institute and the Department of Modern Culture and Media:
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A lecture by Fatimah Tobing Rony, Professor and Chair, Film and Media Studies, Professor Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
“Resisting Visual Biopolitics: Theory and Practice”
January 20, 2022 @ 3:30 PM Via Zoom https://brown.zoom.us/j/96460086625
Through the story of Annah la Javanaise, a trafficked 13-year-old girl who was found wandering the streets of Paris in 1893 and who became the maid and model of painter Paul Gauguin, Fatimah Tobing Rony introduces theories of visual biopolitics to examine those who are allowed to live and those who are allowed to die, in representations of Indonesian women. In her talk she will be screening her short animated film, Annah la Javanaise .
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Organized by the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Brown Arts Institute and Department of Modern Culture and Media
