/sites/default/files/default_images/inside-page-banner_2_0.jpg
Co-Sponsored Events

Shadow and Light: Honoring Iraqi Academics | Photographs of Witness, Memory, and Solidarity

Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Beau Beausoleil and others

Artists' Alley
McKinley Foundation
809 S. Fifth St.
Champaign

Event Description

The Shadow and Light project compiled by Beau Beausoleil, a poet and activist in the Bay Area, memorializes Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2012. This timeframe roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. To create the project, participants from all over the world selected the name of an assassinated Iraqi academic to memorialize with a photograph and a personal narrative.

Watch a video here