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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.

A man wearing a patterned formal shirt and black trousers. He has light skin and dark hair which is greying at the temple. In one hand he holds a microphone in the other he gestures openly, he appears to be thoughtfully responding to a question.

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A brightly lit landscape photo. In the foreground there’s a coniferous tree covered in pine cones. Beyond that there is a sparse landscape covered in shrubs and conifers. In the distance a city is visible, the city is made up of identical condominiums and tower blocks, with sky scrapers at the skyline jutting into a grey-blue sky.
12 November 2026, 10:30

A Conference of Butterflies

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Carmel Alabassi Ayreen Anastas Mahmoud Alshaer Rene Gabri Michel Khleifi David Lloyd Peter Makhlouf Nicholas Mirzoeff Majdal Nateel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi Amirah Silmi Françoise Vergès Sherena Razek Zoé Samudzi Avery F. Gordon 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.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
At the edge of a roadside stand a group of 3 people. A person dressed in black robes is being filmed by one person and is talking to the camera. Another person stands next to them listening. To the left of the group is the back of a van heavily loaded with personal belongings including laundry bags, chairs, cooking pot, plastic water bottle & oil.
13 November 2024
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For Ever Gaza

Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri Françoise Vergès Majdal Nateel Mahmoud Alshaer Amirah Silmi Nicholas Mirzoeff Peter Makhlouf

An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It