On January 27, 2016, Tanya Sheehan (Associate Professor and Chair, Art) will speak in the Bryn Mawr College Colloquium in Visual Culture. Her lecture, titled “Changing the Joke: Racial Humor and American Vernacular Photography,” will examine the cultural work that amateur comic photographs performed in Progressive-Era United States. For more information about Bryn Mawr’s Center for Visual Culture and its colloquium series, go to http://www.brynmawr.edu/visualculture.