Posing Slaves for the Camera: Race and Memory in Khartoum, 1882

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Friday Nov. 13, 2020 colloquium talk with Eve Troutt Powell, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.
"Posing Slaves for the Camera: Race and Memory in Khartoum, 1882".

The talk explores a series of photographs taken by a French photographer in Sudan in 1882. The photographs explores racial types for the "enlightenment" of the French government, yet reveal so much more about Khartoum society at a critical time in the city's history.

Eve M. Troutt Powell teaches the history of the modern Middle East and the history of slavery in the Nile Valley and the Ottoman Empire. As a cultural historian, she emphasizes the exploration of literature and film in her courses. Troutt Powell received her B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to teaching at Penn, she taught for ten years at The University of Georgia. She has received fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt and the Social Science Research Council, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2003 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

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