In this lecture, Tina Campt asks what kind of affective labor is required to grapple with the imperiled status of black life? Taking up Christina Sharpe's provocative injunction to "think juxtapositionally", the lecture considers the affective registers of black visuality that converge in a genre that Campt describes as still moving images. Still moving images demand our affective labor through their capacity to ‘touch or move’ us, as well as the requisite labor of managing, refusing or denying these affects. The lecture engages a series of still moving images of black life and the limits and boundaries created by its constituent antithesis – antiblackness.

Tina Campt is Claire Tow and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Barnard. Campt joined the Barnard faculty in 2010, prior to which she held faculty positions at Duke University, the University of California-Santa Cruz and the Technical University of Berlin. 

Sadie Wearing's (Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at LSE) research and teaching interests are in the critical analysis of literary, visual and media culture with specific interest in representations of aging, temporality and memory in both historical and contemporary contexts.

LSE’s Department of Gender Studies (@LSEGenderTweet) is the largest gender studies centre in Europe. With a global perspective, LSE Gender’s research and teaching intersects with other categories of analysis such as race, ethnicity, class and sexuality; because gender relations work in all spheres of life, interdisciplinarity is key to LSE Gender’s approach.

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