SelectedWorks - Sharon Sliwinski

Contact

Selected Works of Sharon Sliwinski

Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies

Sharon Sliwinski is Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University in Canada. She works broadly in the areas of visual culture studies, political theory, and psychosocial studies.

Works
About

×

About Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski is Professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University in Canada. She works broadly in the areas of visual culture studies, political theory, and psychosocial studies.

Present	Associate Professor, Western University ‐ Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Institution Organization Position Type Position Title Time Period to Options Current Position Affiliate my profile with this Institution

Visual Studies, Photography, Political Theory, and Theory and Philosophy

2013 Charles Taylor Book Award, from the American Political Science Association (Interpreting Methods and Methodologies Group), for Human Rights In Camera

Faculty of Information & Media Studies
North Campus Building, Room 240
Western University
London Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
Phone: (+1) 519 661 2111 ext. 88473

Email:

Dreaming In Dark Times

Sharon Sliwinski

What do dreams manage to say—or indeed, show—about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life ...

Photography and the Optical Unconscious

Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski

Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on ...

Mandela's Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming

Sharon Sliwinski

Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides ...

Human Rights In Camera

Sharon Sliwinski

From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human ...

Guardians of Sleep

Sharon Sliwinski

Built out of conversations with the public and encompassing work by scientists, artists, and philosophers, this podcast explores how dreaming ...

The Museum of Dreams

Sharon Sliwinski

THE MUSEUM OF DREAMS is a hub for exploring the social and political significance of dream-life. We collect and creatively work with ...

Articles (19)

Hannah Arendt Center (2023)

Sharon Sliwinski

The Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Exit: Magazine for Image and Culture (2022)

Sharon Sliwinski

The acoustics of civil resistance: Summoning the spirit of the ...

Journalism (2022)

Sharon Sliwinski

Inspired by Diamond Reynolds’s radical gesture to open a live broadcast in the moments after Philando Castile was shot by ...

An Ode To Reverie

Lulu Journal (2018)

Sharon Sliwinski

As you might imagine from my title, I would like to make a case for one very special kind of ...

The Woman Who Walks Through Photographs

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development (2018)

Sharon Sliwinski

This paper explores Michal Heiman's creative strategy to imaginatively enter the space of asylum. Her recent project, RETURN: ASYLUM (THE DRESS, ...

Evocative Objects: A Sexual Violence Primer

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development (2016)

Sharon Sliwinski

This commentary on Nina Berman’s series, “Object Lessons,” examines the photographer’s strategy of photographing trial evidence from cases of sexual ...

The Face of Our Wartime

Photography and Culture (2015)

Sharon Sliwinski

This paper considers a turn toward portraiture amongst contemporary photojournalists who have covered the War on Terror. A series of ...

The Freedom of Thought, in Dream-life if Nowhere Else: Freud ...

American Imago (2014)

Sharon Sliwinski

This essay examines the “dead daughter in a box" dream, initially reported in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), in ...

The Storyteller: Observations on Murtada Bulbul’s ‘Swineherders’

Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development (2013)

Sharon Sliwinski

This review engages Murtada Bulbul's series of photographs of Bangladeshi swineherders (published in this issue), casting the photographer's treatment as ...

Air War and Dream: Photographing the London Blitz

American Imago (2011)

Sharon Sliwinski

This paper treats Lee Miller's photographs of the London Blitz as a species of dream, which is to say, the ...

The Gaze Called Animal: Notes for a Study on Thinking

The New Centennial Review (2011)

Sharon Sliwinski

Over the course of several days in 1997, Jacques Derrida delivered a long lecture to attendees of a conference in Cerisy called “The ...

Visual Testimony: Lee Miller’s Dachau

Journal of Visual Culture (2010)

Sharon Sliwinski

This essay examines images of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp taken by American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. ...

On Photographic Violence

Photography and Culture (2009)

Sharon Sliwinski

This paper explores the significance of photographic violence in relation to a single defaced image found during the Bosnian War. ...

The Aesthetics of Human Rights

Culture, Theory & Critique (2009)

Sharon Sliwinski

This essay situates the 1755 Lisbon earthquake as an alternate origin point for human rights discourse. As one of the ...

New York Transfixed: Notes on the Expression of Fear

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies (2008)

Sharon Sliwinski

What does fear look like? What can photography reveal of the unconscious dimensions of terror? Working with the largest photographic ...

Camera War, Again

Journal of Visual Culture (2006)

Sharon Sliwinski

The war in Iraq has undoubtedly produced some of the most dreadful entries in the history of camera war.

The Childhood of Human Rights: The Kodak on the Congo

Journal of Visual Culture (2006)

Sharon Sliwinski

This article examines the Congo reform movement's use of atrocity photographs in their human rights campaign (c. 1904–13) against Belgian ...

Thinking Without Banisters: Toward a Compassionate Inquiry of Human Rights ...

Educational Theory (2005)

Sharon Sliwinski

In this essay I chart a range of difficulties for the field of human rights education, a field that has ...

A Painful Labor: Photography and Responsibility

Visual Studies (2004)

Despite the avalanche of objections regarding documentary's false promise to awaken social conscience, this paper considers the tension between photography ...