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Friends of Art History Lecture<\/h1>\n

What forms of visual evidence can, and should, one use to materialize and memorialize the history of Atlantic slavery? In this talk, Matthew Rarey argues that this question, far from being a contemporary ethical challenge, was of critical importance to Africans and Indigenous people swept up in the Atlantic traffic of ideas and lives in the early eighteenth century. Critically analyzing a series of surreptitious and visually benign objects contained or referenced in colonial archives in Brazil and Portugal, Rarey suggests that mapping the visual culture of Atlantic slavery ethically requires engaging objects produced as challenges to, and archives of, their makers\u2019 experiences of displacement and diaspora.<\/p>\n

\"Matthew
\nMatthew Rarey<\/h4>\n

Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History
\nChair of Art History
\nOberlin College and Conservatory<\/h5>\n

Matthew Rarey researches and teaches the art history of the Black Atlantic, with a focus on connections between West Africa, Brazil, and Portugal from the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries. His research looks to visual and material culture to centralize Africans\u2019 contributions to histories of slavery, racial formation, religion, and commodity exchange.<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 28, 2024
\nMitchell Hall 195
\n4:30-6pm<\/h2>\n

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Co-sponsors:<\/h4>\n

African and African Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, C21 and History<\/p>\n

Event Flyer<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Juliao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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