Beginning May 2026 | Online             3rd Thursday of the month | 3-5pm

Seeing Otherwise - a reading group

Building just and sustainable futures requires new ways of seeing that resist extractive and imperial logics. Each month, we come together to discuss such visual propositions, guided by the following questions:
Can we learn to see in ways that withdraws from the grasping gestures of enclosure and appropriation? What ways of framing will bring into view life’s frailty and precariousness, will allow us to stand for its value and dignity, to react with outrage when it is degraded or eviscerated?*

*Thanks to Danielle Taschereau Mamers and Judith Butler for these questions

SUMMER 2026 SCHEDULE

❋ May

Ian Reilly (2026). Decolonial Media Imaginaries. University of Chicago Press.

❋ June

Kency Cornejo (2024). Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America. Duke University Press

❋ July

Xavier Ribas, Louise Purbrick and Ignacio Acosta (2026). Earth Matter: An Index on Extractivism. University of Chicago Press

❋ August