| Thursday and Friday, March 13-15 |
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Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art |
| March 13, 5 pm |
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Keynote Address by Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassatt Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University
Landscape/Escape:
Subjugation and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Images of African Americans |
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| March 14, 9:30 am - 12 noon |
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David Miller, Associate Professor, Department of English, Allegheny College
'That dark struggling, darkly vegetating swamp of human souls':
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Southern Landscape
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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Topsy at the Dressing Table:
Visual Apocrypha and Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| March 14, 2 - 5:30 pm |
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Kymberly Pinder, Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mixing Myths: Multiracial Artists Talk Back to Slavery
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Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Emancipation and the Plantation:
Utopian and Dystopian Visions of the Sugar Economy in Jamaica, 1834-38
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Walter Johnson, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Cotton's Dominion:
Body, Landscape, and Ecology in the Mississippi Valley |
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| March 15, 9 am - 12:30 pm |
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Rebecca Ginsburg, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The View from the Woods: Plantation Landscapes from the Perspective of Fugitives
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Erskine Clarke, Professor of American Religious History, Columbia Theological Seminary
The Landscape of the Lowcountry in Black and White:
Overlapping and Competing Views and Memories
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Stephanie E. Yuhl, Associate Professor, History, College of the Holy Cross
Landscapes of Longing: The Plantation Aesthetic in Sight and Sound |
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