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April 17th, at 12:30pm: Spring Reading Group Meeting

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

On Wednesday, April 17th, we will hold a reading group meeting to discuss two books, creating dialogues between them: Tina Campt, Listening to Images (Duke, 2017), and Maurie McInnis, Slaves Wait... Read More

April 8th, 12:30pm: Conversation about the Tannenbaum Debate and Afro-Latin American Studies Today, with Herman Bennett (CUNY)

Posted on March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

Our conversation about the Tannenbaum thesis will continue on April 8th, at 12:30pm, with the presence of a guest speaker: Herman Bennett, professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City Univ... Read More

January 25th: Workshop with Professor Emily Osborn (History)

Posted on December 13, 2018January 21, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

Please join us on Friday, January 25th, for a workshop session with Emily Osborn (Associate Professor of African History, African Studies, and the College) on “Coloring the Slave Trade Red: C... Read More

January 10th: Conversation with Kathryn Joy McKnight on teaching archives of people of African descent in the Americas

Posted on December 13, 2018January 9, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

The Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group, with the support of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Students Committee, is hosting an open conversation on January 10th with professor Kathryn Joy McKnigh... Read More

January 10th: Public Lecture by Kathryn Joy McKnight on Afro-Iberian healers in Cartagena de Indias

Posted on December 13, 2018January 2, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

As the first event of the winter of 2019, we are proud to have Kathryn Joy McKnight, Associate Professor of the University of New Mexico, to give a public lecture entitled: “Battling for Definitio... Read More

Protected: “On the Spectrality of the Law: Visuality and the Contest for Slaveholding Sovereignty,” by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

Posted on December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 by Isabela Fraga

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Protected: Miguel Valerio, “Visualizing Afro-Creole Performance and Dance in Colonial Latin America”

Posted on November 24, 2018February 19, 2020 by Isabela Fraga

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Protected: Kaneesha Parsard: “Is the Coolie Group a Bargaining Unit?”

Posted on November 15, 2018February 19, 2020 by Isabela Fraga

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Protected: Fall 2019 Reading Group Texts

Posted on October 1, 2018February 19, 2020 by Isabela Fraga

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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