Conferences
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ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean
JUNE 2018 - Palermo, Italy
ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean joins a series of international conversations, including Black Portraitures, breaking new ground in the fields of African and African Diasporic art, literature, cultural theory, history, and political practice. Scholars, writers, artists, and cultural activists from around the world will gather in the heart of the Mediterranean to reason together about issues of representation, migration, diaspora, slave-trade, border, mobility, citizenship, and human rights. We will discuss from a variety of approaches the historically and contemporary ways in which black voices have been silenced and black bodies have been ambiguously imagined in Western-dominated global culture. We will investigate why these questions are relevant to what is happening today in the Mediterranean, a crucial site of the African diaspora since the classic era.
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Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence
March 22-24, 2018 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence
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