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Workshop

Visual Afterlives of Enslavement

10.21.2022

Event Summary

Still from Cuerpo pátina — Cuerpo athanor: Legado de la esclavitud en cuerpos racializados (2021), an artwork by PERMANENCIAS, Compañía de danza contemporánea de raíces afrodiaspóricas.

Still from Cuerpo pátina — Cuerpo athanor: Legado de la esclavitud en cuerpos racializados (2021). Courtesy PERMANENCIAS, Compañía de danza contemporánea de raíces afrodiaspóricas.

This daylong workshop, sponsored by the Slavery and Visual Culture research project at the Neubauer Collegium, will feature a series of presentations on images related to slavery and the slave trade. Themes include: "Bodies," "Black Artists and the (Im)possibilities of Self-fashioning," and "Reading Enslavement."

Presenters include:

Danielle Bainbridge (Northwestern University)
Isabela Fraga
(Stanford University)
Tamara Walker
(Barnard College)
Paulina Alberto
(Harvard University)
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (São Paolo/Princeton University)
Andrei Pop
(University of Chicago)

This event is closed to the public.