A talk by Naeem Mohaiemen, on his new book,
Midnight’s Third Child
Time: 4:15pm
Location: 208 Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, between Broadway and Claremont
Discussant: Debashree Mukherjee, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Naeem Mohaiemen is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Concentration Head of Photography at the School of the Arts, Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University and was a Senior Research Fellow at Lunder Institute of American Art, Colby College; Nadir Mohamed Fellow, Toronto Metropolitan University; and Mellon Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Heyman Center, Columbia University.
Mohaiemen is the author of Midnight’s Third Child (Nokta, 2023) and Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014); and co-editor with Eszter Szakacs of Solidarity Must be Defended (Tranzit, 2023). Monographs on his films include What We Found After You Left (Power Plant, 2021). His films are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), MACBA (Barcelona), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Kiran Nadar Museum (Delhi), and Art Institute of Chicago. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (2014) and a finalist for Britain’s Turner Prize (2018). Art Review magazine’s annual list of 100 practitioners impacting contemporary art included him in the 2023 rankings, alongside fellow School of Arts faculty Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Book cover image (above): Ali Morshed Noton
