The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Institute of African Studies present,
“Rebel Lives, Photographs from inside the Lord’s Resistance Army”
Kristof Titeca, Author; Senior Lecturer, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp
Rein Deslé, Curator and Editor at FOMU (Museum of Photography, Antwerp)
Moderated by Séverine Autesserre, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University
Friday, February 14, 2020
12:10pm-2:00pm
1302 International Affairs
Advance Registration via the Columbia/SIPA Calendars
Abstract
A disturbing visual story about the life inside the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda.
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), led by the infamous Joseph Kony, was active in northern Uganda from the second half of the 1980s. The rebel group became notorious for the use of extreme violence, in particular its large-scale abductions of children. Rebel Lives is a visual story about life inside the rebel movement: based on photographs taken by LRA commanders between 1994 and 2004, this book documents life within violent circumstances, and depicts the rebels as they wanted to be seen among themselves and by the outside world.
Kristof Titeca, Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of Antwerp and expert on the LRA, collected this material, and used it to trace the photographed (former) rebels. Together with Congolese photographer Georges Senga, he travelled back to photograph the former rebels in their current context.
With text contributions from Jonathan Littell, Harriet Anena, Rein Deslé, and Christine Oryema Lalobo.
