Postcards from Afghanistan: Forging a National Identity through Visual Culture
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Presented by Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, JMU Professor of History
This lecture is organized around JMU’s recent acquisition of a set of 1920s photograph-postcards from Afghanistan, a country that gained independence from British India in 1919. These postcards circulated globally and are discussed as elements of a re-branding strategy that deployed photography in pursuit of national distinction and international recognition.
- Date:
- Wednesday, February 20, 2019
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- Carrier 301
- Campus:
- Campus
- Audience:
- Public
- Categories:
- Special Collections Speaker Series
Event Organizer
Kristen Shuyler