Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 2:00-3:30 | GLAS 311
Conversation: “The Art of Reading Historically”
This conversation—a kind of introduction to Cadava’s work—will take its point of departure from three essays from his recent book, Paper Graveyards—“Drawing in Tongues,” “Trees, Hands, Stars, and Veils,” and “Learning to See.” An optional fourth essay is available, “Lessons of the Hour,” which is on the COVID pandemic as a postscript of the book. Each of the pieces have to do with how to read images historically and politically.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5:30 to 8:30 | ACAD 206
"Walter Benjamin’s Mexican Dreams” - Dr. Alberto Moreiras’s graduate seminar on Mexicans in the US.
Cadava will present an excerpt from Politically Red on the two Mexican dreams that Walter Benjamin recounts in One-Way Street: Mexican Embassy and Underground Works.
Thursday, April 20 | 12:00-1:30 pm | GLAS 311 , Texas A&M University
Dr. Eduardo Cadava on “Conflict Shorelines”: A meeting with the “Humanities and the Anthropocene” collective
Cadava will discuss the “Conflict Shorelines” project he is doing with Eyal Weizman and the “Exposure” project he is doing with Fazal Sheikh.
Thursday, April 20 | 2023, 3:00-4:30 | GLAS 311, Texas A&M University
Public Lecture: “‘Training History to Read’: Fazal Sheikh’s The Erasure Trilogy”
This talk takes its point of departure from the award-winning human rights photographer Fazal Sheikh’s multi-volume project on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Erasure Trilogy (2015). Exploring the legacies of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, this project imagines the possibility of exposing and countering the various processes of erasure that, over the last several decades, have sought to erase both the violence of this history and the acts of erasure themselves. The result of this devastation is legible in the fact that Palestinians, Bedouins, and Israelis all find themselves in mourning. What they mourn is themselves, but also their ability to relate to the other. In asking us to be attentive to the history that simultaneously divides and binds these populations—because, for him, the history of the one can never be disentangled from the history of the other—Sheikh hopes to lay the groundwork for a potentially transformative empathy.