The APhRC will host a webinar series composed of six online seminars by photography theorist Eduardo Cadava. This dedicated theoretical strand is meant for anyone interested in gaining a visual literacy in relation to images—artists and practitioners, and faculty and students from any discipline. Drawing on his influential work in the fields of photography and the visual arts, Cadava’s seminars will explore photography’s relationship to memory and history, positioning image-making as both a philosophical and political act. These sessions invite participants to engage with photography as a form of critical thinking, enabling them to ground their own work within broader theoretical and cultural frameworks. They aim to provide participants with an open and flexible lexicon with which to think about the practice of photography and about the technical media more broadly—about what it means to see and think photographically, about what it means to create and read a photograph, and about how to imagine photographic projects. The readings for the 2026-2027 series will include the lectures on photography that Frederick Douglass delivered during the Civil War, selections from Nadar’s memoirs, Siegfried Kracauer’s 1927 essay “Photography,” Jacques Derrida’s Athens, Still Remains, Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, and Anne Carson’s The Autobiography of Red.