Category: Events
January 19 | Theorizing the Afterlives of Slavery in the Americas: A Roundtable
Our first event of 2021 will be a roundtable on the afterlives of slavery featuring three special guests: Deborah Thomas (UPenn), Tavia Nyong’o (Yale), and Lorgia García Peña (Harvard). We wil... Read More
Reading Group Meeting on November 18: Meditations on the Afterlives of Slavery
On Wednesday, November 18, 12-1:30pm CT, the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group will hold a virtual reading group meeting titled “Meditations on the Afterlives of Slavery.” Professor... Read More
Protected: Readings for Reading Group on the Afterlives of Slavery
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October 30: Book Launch—”Beyond Babel” by Larissa Brewer-García
The Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group is proud to announce the launching of Larissa Brewer-García’s new book, Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada (C... Read More
List of monuments to white supremacy that have been defaced, removed, or toppled
This list is a work in progress. If you have information on events that are not listed below, please send it to fraga@uchicago.edu. “A look at the history of the statues being attacked by protes... Read More
Protected: Sarah Jessica Johnson, “The Pictorial Politics of Perpetual Pregnancy: Solitude de la Guadeloupe”
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Monday, May 25: Reading Group Meeting on Zoom
Although we had to cancel our Spring in-person events due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group is still active as an intellectual community. To ensure that our member... Read More
March 13: Cécile Fromont (Yale) on New Edited Volume on Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
UPDATE: The book presentation previously scheduled for March 12 has been CANCELLED. The workshop with Prof. Fromont will happen as scheduled, on March 13, 11:30am, at the John Hope Franklin Room, and ... Read More