Annual Students Conferences at Humboldt: Conferences
 
Picturing America. Domestic and Global Aspects of US Media Culture


Participants

Eddie Bruce
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Eddie Bruce-Jones earned a B.A. in Social Anthropology and Afro-American Studies from Harvard University in 2002. Since then, he has studied Europäische Ethnologie at Humboldt University and is currently writing a Magister thesis on activist work around HIV prevention in Berlin’s prisons. His academic interests include: human rights, strategizing and negotiating concepts of race, gender and sexuality and culture, trans-nationalism / border crossing and multicultural democracy. Eddie will begin legal studies at Columbia Law School this fall.

Paper: Surviving September 11th or Snapshots in the Dark?
A Critical Consideration of two Professional Photographs as Portraits of Denial
(Session IV)


A version of this paper has been published in:
Picturing America. Trauma, Reality, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture.
Antje Dallmann, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis (Editors). Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007.

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