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Conférence: “On Belonging: The Visual Legacies of Black Africans in Early Modern Europe, Hidden and Visible in Plain Sight”, Florence, NIKI, le 10 décembre 2025, 18h

“The past is never dead. It is not even past.” – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951) “The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us – viewer and maker – in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury of loss.” – Kara Walker, on her drawing The moral arc of history …(2010) Writing in his essay collection Nobody Knows My Name (1961), James Baldwin reflects:The questions which one asks oneself...

Appel à contribution : “Slavery and Material Culture in Early Modern Maritime Asia”, RSA, date limite le 20 juillet 2025

Type : Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) : Empires are built on enslaved labor—the objects they left behind bear traces of that exploitation. Recent decades have seen renewed attention toward the intersection between enslaved peoples and the production of art and material culture, yet this scholarly focus has concentrated overwhelmingly on the transatlantic context. Less attention has been paid to the material histories of maritime Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, where large populations of...

Parution : Carmen Fracchia, “Black but Human : Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain”, 1480-1700″, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023

‘Black but Human’ is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb ‘Black but Human’ is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens through which to explore the ways in which a certain visual representation of slavery both embodies and reproduces hegemonic visions of enslaved and liberated Africans, and at the same time provides material for...