Encounters and Collisions Discussion Series: Text Paintings and Speech Acts - Literary Encounters

Led by Centre for Research in Race and Rights members Celeste-Marie Bernier, Sharon Monteith and Richard King (Department of American and Canadian Studies), these four sessions will unpack issues of representation, race and rights as told through text, photojournalism and African American art, to accompany the Glenn Ligon Encounters and Collisions exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary. Click here for more information and to book (free). 

• May 7, 6.30pm: Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Art and Influences
• May 14, 6.30pm: Sharon Monteith, Civil Rights Photojournalism and Open Letters on Race and Rights
• May 28, 6.30pm: Sharon Monteith, Text Paintings and Speech Acts: Literary Encounters
• June 11, 6.30pm: Richard King, Representation and Abstraction: Politics and the Body