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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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Category: Events

February 18: Reading Group on African American Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South

February 18: Reading Group on African American Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South

Posted on February 4, 2021February 18, 2021 by Isabela Fraga
On Thursday, February 18 2021, from 12pm to 1:30pm CST, the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture will be holding a virtual reading group session to discuss the role of African Americans as prod... Read More
January 19 | Theorizing the Afterlives of Slavery in the Americas: A Roundtable

January 19 | Theorizing the Afterlives of Slavery in the Americas: A Roundtable

Posted on January 11, 2021January 14, 2021 by Isabela Fraga
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

Reading Group Meeting on November 18: Meditations on the Afterlives of Slavery

Posted on November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
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

Protected: Readings for Reading Group on the Afterlives of Slavery

Posted on November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.... Read More
October 30: Book Launch—”Beyond Babel” by Larissa Brewer-García

October 30: Book Launch—”Beyond Babel” by Larissa Brewer-García

Posted on October 12, 2020October 28, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
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 

List of monuments to white supremacy that have been defaced, removed, or toppled 

Posted on June 12, 2020June 23, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
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”

Protected: Sarah Jessica Johnson, “The Pictorial Politics of Perpetual Pregnancy: Solitude de la Guadeloupe”

Posted on May 26, 2020October 16, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.... Read More
Monday, May 25: Reading Group Meeting on Zoom

Monday, May 25: Reading Group Meeting on Zoom

Posted on May 18, 2020May 25, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
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

March 13: Cécile Fromont (Yale) on New Edited Volume on Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

Posted on February 25, 2020March 9, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
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
February 21: Andrei Pop on Henry Fuseli's "Oroonoko"

February 21: Andrei Pop on Henry Fuseli’s “Oroonoko”

Posted on February 16, 2020February 19, 2020 by Isabela Fraga
  We are excited to have Andrei Pop workshopping his paper “Sugar, Slavery, and Subjectivity: On Henry Fuseli’s Oroonoko and Several Others” on February 21. Sarah Jessica Johnson (E... Read More
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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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