Guest Lecture by Dr. Erika Zerwes , Henriette Herz Junior Fellow at the KU Center for Advanced Studies "Dialogical Cultures". The lecture will be co-organized by the Center for Latin American Studies (ZILAS).
The lecture will be held in person, without Zoom transmission. Everyone is welcome, it is not necessary to register in advance.
Dr. Erika Zerwes has a PhD in History at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, with a FAPESP scholarship and a CAPES funding for a séjour doctoral at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and a Postdoc at the Museum of Contemporary Art of University of São Paulo, funded by FAPESP. She is the author of the books Tempo de Guerra: cultura visual e cultura política nas fotografias dos fundadores da agência Magnum (2018), Cultura Visual, imagens na modernidade (2019), which was a Jabuti Prize finalist, and Mulheres Fotógrafas, Mulheres Fotografadas. Fotografia e gênero na América Latina (2020). She is currently Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire and Associated Lecturer at the University of London at Birkbeck.
You can find out more about Erika Zerwes and her project here.