CC24 DR AGNES LUGO-ORTIZ - *Visualizaciones del rostro esclavo en el mundo
transatlántico - * 28 March 2019
The Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
(UPR-RP) invites the academic community and the general public to the
lecture:*“**Visualizaciones del rostro esclavo en el mundo transatlántico”*,
by Dr. Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
University of Chicago. Dr. Malena Rodríguez Castro, Department Comparative
Literature, College of Humanities, UPR-Río Piedras, will introduce the
lecturer.The activity will be held on Thursday, March 28, 2019, from 1:00
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Amphitheater Manuel Maldonado Denis (CRA 108), Carmen
Rivera de Alvarado Building, College of the Social Sciences, UPR-RP.
This presentation will be broadcast LIVE online through the UPR-Rio Piedras
web site at http://uprrp.edu
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Description: This talk will be about the presence of the enslaved subject
in portraiture from the beginning of the transatlantic trade, at the
beginning of the 16th century, to the official collapse of the slavery
regime in the Americas towards the end of the 19th century. This era, which
marks the emergence and major development of American plantation slavery,
saw in turn the rise of the visual portrait genre as a privileged
technology for the symbolization of modern notions of subject and
individuality in the Western worlds. In this sense, nothing would seem more
contradictory, with the objectifying logic of slavery, than the idea of a
“slave portrait.” And yet, there are many examples of this type of visual
production. What accounts for them historically? Which specific conditions
allowed that someone who was not deemed the owner of her own body to have
access to the, often dignifying, sphere of visual portraiture and the
exaltation of the face as a mark of a unique and non-transferable
subjectivity? What particularities in the concrete practices of the culture
of modern slavery are revealed in these portraits? These will be some of
the questions addressed in this conference. (Taken from the blog Repeating
Islands)
Humberto García-Muñiz, PhD
Instituto de Estudios del Caribe
9 Ave Universidad STE 901
San Juan, PR 00925-2529
tel. 764-0000, x-87744
fax 787-764-3099,
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http://upr.academia.edu/HumbertoGarciaMuniz
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