Fall 2025
October 15, 2025, 5:00 PM CST: Lecture by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Prof. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby will give her lecture “Before and After ‘William Casby, Born a Slave.'” From Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass to Richard Avedon, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, and Isaac Julien, opposition to slavery has been thought through photography. This lecture meditates on this long, complicated history, all the while wondering about the politics of “black and white” and color.
The event will be held at the Cochrane-Wood Lecture Hall, followed by a reception.
October 16, 2025, 12:30-1:50 PM CST: Workshop with Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
At a workshop title, “Creole Secrets,” we will hold a discussion with Prof. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby on selections from her book Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century. Lunch will be provided.
Please register here.
You can download the password-protected selections here.
The events with Prof. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby are co-sponsored by the Program on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Art History, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, the France Chicago Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies.
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Winter 2026
February 24, 2026, 12:30-1:50 PM CST: Workshop with Prof. Emily Osborn and Marty Ward.
Details to be announced.