Navigating the Archive: Marie Meyerding and Lily Cho in Conversation
Friday, March 17 at 9am PST • 12 Noon EST • 5pm BST
Join us for a lively conversation on March 17 with photo-historians Lily Cho and Marie Meyerding.
Lily Cho’s recent book Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens (McGill Queens University Press, 2021) examines the formidable archive of CI-9’s, Canadian state documents used to monitor the identity and movement of Chinese migrants in and out of Canada from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. Marie Meyerding is a doctoral candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin, writing a dissertation on women and photography in apartheid South Africa. The “Sights of Struggle” project focuses on one of the first Black South African women photographers, Mavis Mtandeki, and her work documenting the political activism and everyday lives of women in Tambo Village near Cape Town.
After a presentation by each author, Marie Meyerding and Lily Cho will engage in a moderated discussion with Catherine Zuromskis about navigating the complexity of understudied photographic archives to construct new historical narratives.
Photography Network is proud to present this virtual program. Please register for the Zoom event here.
Lily Cho, Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens (2021)
Mavis Mtandeki and Marie Meyerding. Sights of Struggle: The History of the Women of Tambo Village. Eindhoven: Lecturis, 2023.
This program is generously supported by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.
Photography Network membership is required to attend. To become a member, sign up here: Register here for the event on Friday, March 17, 9 AM PST / 12 Noon EST / 5 PM BST. The event will be recorded and made available for a limited time. Please email photography.network.board@gmail.com to obtain a password-protected link to the recording.