The brothers Andimba Toivo ya Toivo and Nestor ya Toivo, Van Kalker Studio, Cape Town, 1955 (courtesy District Six Museum).

The Eisenberg Institute concludes its fall lecture series on Thursday, December 3, 4:00 p.m., in 1014 Tisch Hall, with Patricia Hayes's lecture, "Exit Hamlet: Betrayal and Portrayal in Colonial Namibia and the Cape, 1929-1960." The talk continues the Institute's 2015-17 theme, "Senses and Longings." Link for a lecture abstract. Free and open to the public.

Patricia Hayes studies colonial Namibian history and has published widely on the relationship between colonial photography and administration. She is co-author of Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility and Containment (1998), as well as The Colonising Camera: Photographs in the Making of Namibian History (1998), which was nominated for the Sunday Times non-fiction award in South Africa. She runs a visual history research project at the University of the Western Cape, which focuses on Southern African documentary photography.

On Friday, December 4, 12:00 p.m., in 1014 Tisch Hall, the Institute concludes its fall 2015 programming with the graduate student workshop, "Seeing and Being Seen: Genre Separation and New Visual Methods," featuring: 

  • “A Market for Atmosphere: The Visuality of the Townscape Movement,” Sarah Mass, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Michigan
  • “Michês in Motion: Visual Rhetoric, Story Mapping, and Male Prostitutes in Bahia,” Rashun Miles, Ph.D. Student, History & Anthropology, University of Michigan
  • “Cinema Meets Colonial Psychiatry: Jean Rouch and West African Labor Migrants,” Nana Osei Quarshie, Ph.D. Student, History & Anthropology, University of Michigan
  • Discussant: Patricia Hayes, Professor, History, University of the Western Cape
  • Chair: Nancy Rose Hunt, Professor, History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

These events are made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.