Sarah Lewis: How We Teach the Truth (ASL)
Room: Languages & Literature, 1st Floor
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis’s talk is an extension of her Vision & Justice course, discussing images, truth, representation, and justice. The initiative Vision & Justice, founded and spearheaded by Lewis, builds awareness of the impact of images in the public realm and their capacity to shape the interwoven fabric of individual identity, community collaboration, and democratic participation, revealing the foundational role visual culture plays in generating equity and justice.
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an art and cultural historian, curator, and author. She is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the Founder of Vision & Justice. Her books and edited volumes include Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press, 2021), “Vision & Justice” by Aperture magazine (2016), and The Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Lewis was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2022. Her scholarship has received awards including the Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize, the inaugural Freedom Scholar Award from The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. Lewis’s forthcoming publications include The Unseen Truth (Harvard University Press, 2024), Vision & Justice (One World/Random House), and Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law.
Room: Languages & Literature, 1st Floor
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis’s talk is an extension of her Vision & Justice course, discussing images, truth, representation, and justice. The initiative Vision & Justice, founded and spearheaded by Lewis, builds awareness of the impact of images in the public realm and their capacity to shape the interwoven fabric of individual identity, community collaboration, and democratic participation, revealing the foundational role visual culture plays in generating equity and justice.
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an art and cultural historian, curator, and author. She is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the Founder of Vision & Justice. Her books and edited volumes include Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press, 2021), “Vision & Justice” by Aperture magazine (2016), and The Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Lewis was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2022. Her scholarship has received awards including the Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize, the inaugural Freedom Scholar Award from The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. Lewis’s forthcoming publications include The Unseen Truth (Harvard University Press, 2024), Vision & Justice (One World/Random House), and Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law.
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