Visualizing Slavery and British Culture in the 18th Century -Gilder Lehrman Center's 16th Annual International Conference

glc homepage   |   conference page  |   lodging  |   travel & parking  |   schedule  |   registration    Visualizing Slavery and British Culture in the Eighteenth Century Gilder Lehrman Center's 16th Annual International Conference November 7-8, 2014 Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street New Haven, Connecticut This two-day international conference will coincide with the Yale Center for British Art's exhibition Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, which explores the multiple and complex relationships between slavery and portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain as represented in the collections of the Center and other Yale institutions. Using a cross disciplinary approach, the conference will help place the works in the exhibition in a historical context—Britain and its empire from roughly the 1720s to the early 1800s—and explore the impact of slavery on British art and culture. The conference intends to build on the growing field of work exploring the relationships between slavery, art, taste, and power, as well as to raise questions about how art, artists, and cultural institutions reckon with slavery's legacies. Conference Participants Biographical Information Abstracts Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University Timothy Barringer, Yale University David W. Blight, Yale University Nicholas Draper, University College London Gillian Forrester, Yale Center for British Art Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps College Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University Sandra Jackson-Dumont, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, University of Chicago Wayne Modest, Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen Catherine A. Molineux, Vanderbilt University Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University Steven Pincus, Yale University Geoff Quilley, University of Sussex Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop Joseph Roach, Yale University Edward Rugemer, Yale University James Walvin, York University Roxann Wheeler, The Ohio State University Chi-Ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania Co-Sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art. Credit: Arthur Devis, John Orde, His Wife Anne, and His Eldest Son William (1754-1756), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.