Open Class | Ulrich Bauer

Open classes 2022

Ulrich Bauer | Photography as Witness: On some Distinctions between Documentary and Testimonial Images
March 10 | 18h30

Conference open to the public
 

The second session of the 2022 cycle of Open Classes takes place on March 10, at 6:30 p.m., at the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium. The guest is New York University (NYU) professor Ulrich Bauer. Director of the Center for the Humanities at NYU, Bauer teaches photography and literature. The theme of his open class will be "Photography as Witness: On some Distinctions between Documentary and Testimonial Images".

The Open Lessons 2022 programme of the Escola das Artes of the Porto Regional Centre of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa integrates artists, researchers and activists from different areas and contexts. The meetings aim to contribute to contemporary debates surrounding artistic practices and critical thinking.

BIO

Uli Baer's work includes books on a variety of topics such as poetry, photography, free speech, 9/11, Holocaust testimonies, as well as a dystopian novel (We Are But a Moment, 2017) and a collection of stories (Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shanghai, 2012). He has translated and edited several volumes of Rainer Maria Rilke's writings, most recently Rilke on Love (2020) and The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (2018). 

He is a professor at New York University (NYU), where he teaches literature and photography, and director of NYU's Center for the Humanities. He is a recipient of the Getty, Humboldt and Guggenheim fellowships and a two-time recipient of NYU's teaching award. Uli attended the University of California, Berkeley, as a freshman, earned his BA from Harvard College (where his concentration was Varsity Crew) and received an M.Phil. and PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University.