Nicholas Mirzoeff
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor and chair of the Department of Media, Culture and Communication.
Among the founders of the interdisciplinary practice of visual culture, he has published more than a dozen books and many articles. His most recent book is To See In The Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7th (Pluto, 2025), which is the subject of a dossier at Social Text journal. It has now appeared in Italian and Spanish translations.
In 2023, he published White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press), also available in Italian and Spanish translations. and An Introduction to Visual Culture (Third edition, Routledge). How To See The World was published by Pelican in the UK (2015) and by Basic Books in the US (2016). It has been translated into eleven languages and was a New Scientist Top Ten Book of the Year for 2015. His book The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011) won the Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2013.
A frequent blogger and writer, his work has appeared in The Nation, Hyperallergic, Frieze, the New York Times, the Guardian, Time and The New Republic.
Artist Events
A Conference of Butterflies
Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Nasser Abourahme Carmel Alabassi Ayreen Anastas Mahmoud Alshaer Rene Gabri Avery F. Gordon Michel Khleifi David Lloyd Peter Makhlouf Nicholas Mirzoeff Majdal Nateel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi Françoise Vergès Additional Contributors
This edition of the Conference of Butterflies asks contributors to share words, notions, practices which nourish or obstruct our movements from perceiving and abolishing all the forces, forms, institutions maintaining the planetary regime of ongoing Nakba.
Genocide’s Wake & To See In The Dark
David Lloyd Nicholas Mirzoeff
Nick is a leading Jewish Anti-Zionist scholar who helped found the discipline of visual culture. David is a poet, playwright, writer and a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. They’ll talk about visibility, individuation and solidarity.