This multi-day conference, organized by the Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture, an interdisciplinary forum at the University of Chicago, and the Slavery and Visual Culture research project at the Neubauer Collegium, focused on "The Puerto Rican Case" and took place at various locations in Puerto Rico. Topics of discussion included: Colonial Urbanism and Architecture; History, Visuality, and Slavery in the Caribbean; Francisco Oller’s El velorio; and more. The event included walking tours of Río Piedras and Hacienda La Esperanza; a keynote address by Roberto Conduru (Southern Methodist University) on "Post-Captivity Art: On Spaces of Slavery and Fight for Freedom"; a roundtable with young Afro-Puerto Rican artists; a screening of the film El Santiago de las mujeres; and several public performances and forums.