Unmute and Rescript History: Listening to Photographs of the Women of the Algerian Revolution

Sophia Mo will present part of her current book project, “Rescripting Liberation from the Margins”, which traces the intersection between women’s emancipation and the global anticolonial struggle during the 1950s and 60s. Her talk will focus on photography and what visual archives can tell us about the central place of women in the Algerian Revolution.

Sophia Mo is an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and is a scholar of comparative literature, gender studies, (post-)colonialism, and translation theory.