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  • 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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Call for Papers: 1er Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores en Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos in Cartagena

Call for Papers: 1er Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores en Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos in Cartagena

Posted on August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 by Isabela Fraga
Between May 27 and 29, 2020, the University of Cartagena, Colombia, will hold the 1er Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores en Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos, to mark the centennial of writer Ma... Read More
Cécile Fromont Publishes Edited Volume on Afro-Catholics Festivals

Cécile Fromont Publishes Edited Volume on Afro-Catholics Festivals

Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 by Isabela Fraga
One of the founding members of the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group, Cécile Fromont, has just published Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas Performance, Representation, and the Making of... Read More
Video: Co-Founding Member Agnes Lugo-Ortiz Speaks about Visualizing the Enslaved Face

Video: Co-Founding Member Agnes Lugo-Ortiz Speaks about Visualizing the Enslaved Face

Posted on April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 by Isabela Fraga
On March 2019, co-founding member Agnes Lugo Ortiz gave a lecture at the University of Puerto Rico on “Visualizing the Enslaved Face in the Transatlantic World.” The lecture was part of th... Read More
Founding Member Cécile Fromont Featured in the NYT about Restitution of Artwork to African Countries

Founding Member Cécile Fromont Featured in the NYT about Restitution of Artwork to African Countries

Posted on January 5, 2019February 13, 2019 by Isabela Fraga
Art historian Cécile Fromont (Yale), founding member of the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture, was featured in a New York Times piece published on Jan. 3 about a report that calls for artwo... 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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