11-12 September, Aquatic complexities. Tourism, aesthetics and dis:connections
Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, LMU Munich, organised by Hanni Geiger
11-12 September 2024
Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, LMU Munich, organised by Hanni Geiger
11-12 September 2024
This workshop focuses on free African American people through art, visual culture and studies of space. It investigates circumstances of freedom and the disconnection from slavery prior to the Civil War, representations of free people of colour and descendants in visual culture and studies of space into the 21st century, and 17th and 18th-century White European immigration into Black America.
Presentations may focus on artworks made by free people of colour, such as sculptor Edmonia Lewis, portrait photographer J.P. Ball, landscape artist Robert S. Duncanson, and painters Henry Ossawa Turner and Edward Mitchell Bannister. How did their status as free play a role in their artistic careers or impact the content of their artworks? Papers may also focus on mobility and migration into free Black settlements across the United States and Canada. Topics include visual and spatial analyses of Black churches and schools, ownership of property shown in land surveys, rural roads named after free families of colour, or cemeteries.
With our location in Germany for the workshop, we seek to explore European migration into enslaving territories. What are the through lines of White families who become Black in the new world? They may have become enslavers who bore liberated children of colour. Or they may be indentured servants who bore free children of colour. Some free people of colour in the United States descended from German, British, Irish and Scottish forebears. What are the global ramifications of such disrupted, disconnected genealogies?
Overall, the workshop seeks to contribute new scholarship to the underrecognised subject of free African Americans and descendant populations in visual and spatial representation.
The deadline for presentation proposals is 20 April, 2024.
Please click here for the call for papers.More detailed information on the programme will be provided shortly.
Continue ReadingStart: 17:00 at Käte Hamburger Research Centre global:disconnect, LMU Munich, Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, 81675 Munich
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Deutsches Museum, Monday Colloquium: Global Envirotech Histories - Knowledge and Artifacts in Motion
All lectures start at 16:30 and take place in room 1402, library building, Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 Munich
Click here to download the poster. Continue ReadingThe lunchtime colloquium (“ltc”) of the gd:c continues in the winter term. The first session will take place on 16 April. The colloquium takes place on Tuesdays from 11.30 am to 1 pm at the library of the Research Centre.
You can download the programme of the lunchtime colloquium here