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Oliver Smithies Lecture: Stasi Surveillance: Photography’s Material and Residual Traces.
This lecture examines the entanglement of photography with the past and its potential future within a post-archival context. Specifically, it examines photographs taken by the East German Stasi from the 1960s to 1989, highlighting the extensive material and photographic residue that serve as tangible traces of surveillance activities. Through key case studies, the lecture considers photography’s multiple registers as a tool for covert surveillance and as an evidential record, which nonetheless become haunting traces of unseen surveillance forces and a testament to photography’s unsettling potential.
Date:
5 March 2026, 17:15
Venue:
Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details:
Gillis Lecture theatre
Speaker:
Associate Professor Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)
Organiser contact email address:
college.office@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking email:
college.office@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Genny Teague
