About – Page 2 – Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group

Elzbieta Sklodowska: “Etched in Sugar, Soil, Metal, and Blood: The Afterlives of the ‘Plantation Machine’ and Countervisuality in Contemporary Cuban Art”

Posted on September 18, 2021October 18, 2021 by Isabela Fraga

To start off the 2021-2022 academic year, the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture will host a virtual talk by Elzbieta Sklodowska (Washington University in Saint Louis) titled “Etched in... Read More

test

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Isabela Fraga

April 19 & 20: Launching “Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive”

Posted on April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 by Isabela Fraga

On April 19, the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture will be launching its first digital exhibit, “Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive,R... Read More

Protected: Brodwyn Fischer, “Intimate Inequalities: Afterlives of a Slave City”

Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021 by Isabela Fraga

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.... Read More

March 18: Workshop with Brodwyn Fischer on Urban History and the Afterlives of Slavery in Recife, Brazil

Posted on March 8, 2021March 13, 2021 by Isabela Fraga

Join us on March 18 (Thursday), from 12pm-1:30pm CST for our Winter faculty workshop. We will be discussing professor Brodwyn Fischer’s essay, “Intimate Inequalities: Afterlives of a Slave Cit... Read More

Insurgency Against Public Memorializations of White Supremacy: An Open Discussion on Tuesday, June 16

Posted on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 by Isabela Fraga

The contemporary insurgency against anti-Black policing has buoyed a parallel insurgency against public memorializations of white supremacy. While routinely charged with “destroying history,” with... Read More

October 23: Workshop with Sarah Jessica Johnson on Solitude de la Guadeloupe

Posted on May 26, 2020October 6, 2020 by Isabela Fraga

Please join os on October 23 (Friday), at 12pm CT, for our Fall faculty workshop with Prof. Sarah Jessica Johnson (English). Johnson will be sharing her paper “The Pictorial Politics of Perpetual Pr... Read More

Protected: Cécile Fromont, “Kongo Christianity, Festive Performances, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition”

Posted on March 2, 2020March 3, 2020 by Isabela Fraga

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.... Read More

October 29th: Reading Group Meeting on “Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World”

Posted on October 1, 2019October 7, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

Our first reading group meeting of the 2019-2020 academic year will be on October 29th, 5pm-6:30pm, at Rosenwald 405. We will be reading two chapters from Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (Camb... Read More

Friday, May 17th: Workshop with Prof. Christopher Taylor (English)

Posted on April 29, 2019May 9, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

On Friday, May 17th, the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group will discuss a pre-circulated paper by professor Christopher Taylor (English), titled “Divine Servitude against the Work of Man:... Read More