Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop
The quarter's theme is "Gender and Slavery," and the papers will address the interrelations between gender, sexuality, and enslavement across different historical periods, including contemporary forms of slavery.
*March 3rd, 2015: Kay Dian Kriz (Brown University) and Agnes Lugo Ortiz (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies), "A Conversation on the Visual Construction of Mulatas: Slavery and Abolition in the Spanish- and English-speaking Colonial Caribbean"
Description:
In this session professors Kay Dian Kriz (Art History, Brown University) and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian-Studies, UChicago) will lead a comparative discussion on the visual construction of mulatas in the English- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although unevenly perceived as a figure of racial and cultural "in-betweeness," discourses on miscegenation woven through and around the mulata had seemingly different expressions and effects in these two distinct colonial contexts. This discussion will take as points of departure oil paintings by Agostino Brunias in the eighteenth century West Indies and selected objects of material culture produced in Cuba during the 1860s. Through them, we aim to open up a conversation on the particular entanglements between visuality, gender, and enslavement vis-á-vis processes of legitimation and delegitimation of empire and with regard to the asynchronous emergence of abolitionist politics in the region.
Please see the workshop blog for further details:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/
Date: March 3, 2015
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
See:http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/
Date: March 3, 2015
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
See:http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/genderandsexuality/