The MELA Social Justice Committee will host a virtual lecture with Tiffany Bradley as part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2020-2021 season, Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East. The lecture will be on February 18th, 2021, at 11AM EST (UTC -5). This lecture will be recorded, though as it is intended to be interactive discussion we hope you can join us live.
Please register for the lecture here: http://bit.ly/MELABradley
“Revisioning Research: Looking at Identity and Visual Culture”
Critic Tiffany Bradley will examine art, literature, and photography as tools to explore Middle Eastern communities. She will discuss cultivating a multicultural, multiracial approach to research in the Middle East and North Africa. Her discussion will be informed by critical race theory and her anthropological fieldwork in Nubian communities in Cairo and Palestinians of African descent in Jerusalem. She will also talk about online networks looking at shared histories from a fresh perspective. This interactive session will consider approaches to diversifying studies for academics, researchers, and students.
Tiffany Bradley is the founder of Colored Criticism, a media series and consultancy for cultural heritage stories. During the COVID-19 crisis, she has convened #ArtOffPause, a livestream series for artists and curators working in affected communities. Her writing has appeared in Westchester Magazine, The Nation, and Colorlines. She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University, studied abroad at the American University in Cairo, and was a Fulbright scholar in Museum Studies at the University of Haifa.