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Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group

  • About
  • 2024-2025 Schedule
  • Resources
  • News
  • Digital Exhibits
    • Palimpsests: Visual Idioms of Enslavement in the Nineteenth Century and their Afterlives
    • Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: An Archive
  • International Colloquia
    • March 2018: Traveling Colloquium to Paris and Nantes
    • June 2019: Esclavitud, visualidad y memoria: Prácticas de reactivación
    • July 2023: Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives (The Puerto Rico Case)
  • Contact Us

Author: fromont

Traveling Colloquium to Paris and Nantes March 2018

Traveling Colloquium to Paris and Nantes March 2018

Posted on May 6, 2018October 31, 2018 by fromont
Slavery and Visual Culture Colloquium – Journées d’études sur l’esclavage et les cultures visuelles Collaborative Colloquium in France in March 2018    Left: members of the seminar at Nantes... Read More
Workshop Discussion with Simon Gikandi: Friday, October 28th at 10am

Workshop Discussion with Simon Gikandi: Friday, October 28th at 10am

Posted on September 12, 2016October 21, 2016 by fromont
Please join us for a workshop-style discussion of past and current research projects and writings with Simon Gikandi on Friday, October 28th at 10am at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and... Read More
Reading Group Discussion of Simon Gikandi's Slavery and the Culture of Taste: Tuesday October 11th 4:30pm

Reading Group Discussion of Simon Gikandi’s Slavery and the Culture of Taste: Tuesday October 11th 4:30pm

Posted on September 12, 2016October 19, 2016 by fromont
Please join us for the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group’s first reading group discussion.  The aim of our reading group sessions is to discuss texts and/or visual material deemed fun... Read More
Lecture by Simon Gikandi Thursday October 27th 5:30pm Franke Institute for the Humanities Conference Room

Lecture by Simon Gikandi Thursday October 27th 5:30pm Franke Institute for the Humanities Conference Room

Posted on September 8, 2016October 19, 2016 by fromont
  The Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture presents The Spaces of Enslavement: Rethinking the Architecture of the Castle/Dungeon a public lecture by Simon Gikandi  of Princeton University   ... Read More
Welcome to the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture at the University of Chicago

Welcome to the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture at the University of Chicago

Posted on September 8, 2016October 19, 2016 by fromont
The newly created Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture at the University of Chicago has been formed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research on the visual imagining... Read More

Coming Up

October 24, 4:30-6:3opm: Lecture by Nancy van Deusen, “The Challenges of Working with Indigenous Petitions for Freedom”

October 25, 12:00-1:30pm: Workshop with Nancy van Deusen, “Rescate (Exchange/Redemption) of Indigenous Captives: An Absent Presence in Spanish American Colonial Archives”

 

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