Séance du séminaire de l'aire Irlande (axe 5) & Programme bilatéral PHC Ulysses

Séminaire Aire Irlande, Axe 5, CECILLE & Programme bilatéral PHC Ulysses - Mercredi 18 mars de 16h30 à 18h, en présentiel, salle Denizot (B0.553), Campus Pont-de-Bois.

Organisation : Claire Dubois (lauréate PHC Ulysses) et Géraldine Vaughan 

Dr Justin Carville (IADT, Dublin), "Governing and Ungoverning Photography: Histories and Photographies in the Racialization of Ireland"

 This talk explores what photographs might contribute to exploring Patrick Wolfe’s statement that ‘races are traces of histories’. Discussing the mobilization of photography to racialize the Irish from the late nineteenth through to the mid-twentieth century, the talk will focus on the methods and theoretical frameworks that open up spaces to reflect on the intersections of photography, social history and race. Exploring photography as the material traces of the entwined histories of technologies of representation, racial ideologies, subjectivity and governmentality which collectively contribute to mobilization of photography in processes of racialization, the talk identifies those moments when these entwined histories form particular historical constellations of racial formations and political subjectivities. 

Justin Carville teaches Historical and Theoretical Studies in Photography at IADT. His research interests are in the historiography of photography, colonial and post-colonial photography, photography and the city and the place of photography in antiquarianism, natural history, folklore and ethnography. His is the author of Photography and Ireland (Reaktion, 2011) and as co-editor  of Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States (Leuven University Press, 2021).