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Artist's Talk with Christopher Sims

Inside of cell block at Guantanamo Navel Base.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Christopher Sims
Witness to Guantanamo

Christopher Sims: Guantánamo Bay Photo Archive: 2006-2010
January 27th, 6:30pm
Talk will be held in the Full Frame Theater adjacent to the Power Plant Gallery

Join us as Sims discusses his documentary photography project at the Guantanamo Naval Base. This talk is held as part of the exhibition Witness to Guantanamo at the Power Plant Gallery.

Drawing on the Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection in the Human Rights Archive at Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, this exhibit foregrounds the voices of the individuals whose lives were forever changed by their experience. These first-hand testimonies reveal the physical, emotional, and political scars inflicted by Guantanamo and underscore how the treatment of detainees and the extra-legal procedures deployed at Guantanamo hobbled rather than enabled the rule of law and the quest for truth and justice.

Christopher Sims is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Undergraduate Education Director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Support for the project by Sims was provided by the Center for Documentary Studies and the Carceral Imaginary Working Group at the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Exhibit Cosponsors: Duke Human Rights Center @FHI, The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment, Duke Center for International and Comparative Law, Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic, Duke Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center

Contact: Caitlin Kelly