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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)
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Author: lordfransee

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby lecture

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby lecture

Posted on March 8, 2018 by lordfransee
The University of Chicago Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture presents a keynote lecture by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (University of California, Berkeley) “INGRES’S CREOLES (SECRETS)&... Read More
Reading group

Reading group

Posted on May 18, 2017October 31, 2018 by lordfransee
A quick reminder that the Slavery and Visual Cultures Working Group would like to invite you to a reading group meeting on Monday, May 22nd at 4:30pm to discuss Hortense J. Spillers’s 1987 essa... Read More
Workshop with Anne Lafont

Workshop with Anne Lafont

Posted on March 27, 2017October 31, 2018 by lordfransee
Please join the Slavery and Visual Cultures Working Group workshop on April 14 at 10 am in the CSRPC seminar room (5733 S. University) to discuss a new paper by Anne Lafont (French National Institute ... Read More
Lecture by Anne Lafont: "How did Skin Color become a Racial Marker ? The Contribution of Art in the Eighteenth Century" April 13

Lecture by Anne Lafont: “How did Skin Color become a Racial Marker ? The Contribution of Art in the Eighteenth Century” April 13

Posted on March 27, 2017March 27, 2017 by lordfransee
Please join the Slavery and Visual Cultures Working Group on April 13 when we will welcome a public lecture with Anne Lafont (French National Institute of Art History in Paris) presenting a talk on &#... Read More
Reading group: February 22

Reading group: February 22

Posted on February 17, 2017October 31, 2018 by lordfransee
The Slavery and Visual Cultures Working Group would like to invite you to a reading group meeting on Wednesday, February 22 from 4:30 to 6 in CSRPC room 103 (1st floor seminar room, 5733 S. University... Read More
Workshop with Carmen Fracchia: February 15

Workshop with Carmen Fracchia: February 15

Posted on January 28, 2017January 29, 2017 by lordfransee
We would like to invite you to join us in a workshop discussion of Carmen Fracchia’s book-in-progress Black but Human: Slavery and Visual Culture in Imperial Spain on Wednesday, February at 10AM... Read More
Public lecture by Carmen Fracchia 
on February 14

Public lecture by Carmen Fracchia 
on February 14

Posted on January 28, 2017January 28, 2017 by lordfransee
The Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group presents a Public Lecture by Carmen Fracchia 
Professor of Early Modern Spanish Visual Studies at Birkbeck, University of London

 “Picturing the E... 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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