Heyman Center for the Humanities

10 am - 5 pm Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Heyman Center for the Humanities 5:30 pm Concert at the Maison Française The goal of our conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to think through some key questions and issues that arise when we study the connections between the arts and the history of abolitionism in the Atlantic world, e.g.: What approaches did writers, musicians, and artists take to the problems of slavery and the slave trade? In what ways did their creative activities subvert or reinscribe stereotypes about Africans and African-descended people? How did the materiality of the objects […]