Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge Lecture: Anna Arabindan-Kesson
When:
Wednesday, Oct 09, 2024 6:00p -
7:15p
Wednesday, Oct 09, 2024 6:00p -
7:15p
Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, History, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://bit.ly/3Ndl6c5
Join us for a discussion with Anna Arabindan-Kesson, from Princeton University, about some of the artistic networks and aesthetic imaginaries among African-diasporic artists and makers throughout the Americas from the 18th through the 19th century.
Speaker:
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art with a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Anna Arabindan-Kesson (she/her) is an immigrant writer, scholar, and curator. Her work generally engages with the intersections of race, labor, migration, and medicine in the visual and material culture of communities across the Black diaspora and the former British Empire. She serves as the director of Art Hx, a digital humanities project and object database that addresses the intersections of art, race, and medicine in the British Empire. Her first book, Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Duke University Press, 2021), looks to the commodity of cotton, central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the 19th-century Atlantic World.
Free admission, but seating is limited, and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form, beginning Sunday, September 29, after 10am.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Doors will open for seating at 5:30pm.
Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
