Brenna Wynn Greer considers how iconic photographs – representative of Black people, the Black past, and Black protest – function as an archive of Black iconicity, the central motif of which is the seated Black subject.

Debates on forced migration often assume that one is either a refugee or a citizen. Thy Phu considers visual forms of “refugee citizenship”, a concept that denotes alternative forms of citizenship that challenge nation-state frameworks.

Darren Newbury examines how the U.S. Information Agency presented civil rights protests as a form of "democracy in action”, as the Cold War took hold and many countries in the global south began to break free of colonial rule.

Ileana Selejan reflects on civic movements in Latin America, considering the manifold ways members of the public have deployed photography for justice-seeking purposes.

This lecture, drawn from Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography, focuses on Carrie Mae Weems’ collaborative series Constructing History, which reenacted photographs from the U.S. Civil Rights era.

Patricia Hayes engages with an archive of interviews with Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020), who posed critical questions about environmental activism in South Africa while exposing older problems around race and exclusion.