Events – Page 2 – Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group

February 6 & 7: Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU), “Whiteness Falls in the Shattered City”

Posted on January 29, 2020February 19, 2020 by Isabela Fraga

The Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group is excited to host two events with Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Hum... Read More

May 21st: Black Mirror in Golden Age Spain: Juan Latino, Diego Velázquez, and the Poetics of Self

Posted on April 2, 2019April 4, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

Please join us for a joint event with the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures on Tuesday, May 21st, at 5pm. We are pleased to welcome Maxim Rigaux, Fulbright and Belgian American Education... Read More

April 8th, 5pm: “African Kings and Black Slaves,” by Herman Bennett (CUNY)

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

Please join us on April 8th, at 5pm, for a book presentation by Herman Bennett, professor of History at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). The talk, based on his most rec... Read More

March 15th: Reading group session on Frank Tannenbaum with Barbara Weinstein (NYU)

Posted on December 13, 2018February 28, 2019 by Isabela Fraga

On March 15th, 2019, the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group will hold a special reading group session: Barbara Weinstein (History, NYU) will be conducting a discussion on Frank Tannenbaum’... Read More

December 7th: Workshop on pre-circulated paper by Professor Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

Posted on October 19, 2018December 3, 2018 by brewergarcia

Please join us on Friday, Dec. 7th, for our first workshop of the 2018-2019 academic year with: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures) “On the Spectrali... Read More

Reading Group meeting on Christina Sharpe, “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being” (Duke, 2016)

Posted on October 19, 2018November 17, 2018 by brewergarcia

Monday, November 19th, 2018 CSRPC first floor conference room, 12pm-1:20pm. A light lunch will be served. Read the book and bring your thoughts to share.... Read More

Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories – Screening and Performance

Posted on October 19, 2018October 31, 2018 by brewergarcia

Sunday November 4th, 2018 Logan Center, Screening Room 201, 915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL Film screening: 5-7pm Flamenco Performance: 7-8pm Description: The recent critically acclaimed documentary... Read More

Conversation with the director and dancer of critically acclaimed documentary Gurumbé (Miguel Ángel Rosales and Yinka Esi Graves)

Posted on October 19, 2018October 31, 2018 by brewergarcia

Monday, November 5th, 2018 Center for Identity and Inclusion Conference Room, 5710 S. Woodlawn Ave. 12pm-1:20pm Conversation with the director and dancer of Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories (Mig... Read More

Traveling Colloquium to Paris and Nantes March 2018

Posted on May 6, 2018October 31, 2018 by fromont

Slavery and Visual Culture Colloquium – Journées d’études sur l’esclavage et les cultures visuelles Collaborative Colloquium in France in March 2018 Left: members of the seminar at Nantes... Read More

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