"The Value of an Unflinching Gaze: Portraiture, Enslavement, and the Process of Locating Black Women in the 16th Century."

Date
Apr 2, 2025, 5:00 pm7:30 pm
Audience
Open to the public

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In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan shares her efforts to understand the African woman painted holding a clock in Bologna in 1585.  

 

The talk engages both with material culture, scholarship on Art History, the Early Modern Black Atlantic world, and the provocation of critical fabulation.

 This event is free and open to the public.