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LEC/SYMP: “Of Slavery and Abolitions: Perspectives from the World of the Slaves” Keynote by Franklin Knight

Keynote Address by:

Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Keynote address for:

Abolishing Slavery in the Atlantic World: the
‘Underground Railroad’  in the Americas, Africa, and Europe

Organized by Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc.

Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 9am
Bush Memorial, Russell Sage College, Troy, New York

Information at: www.ugrworkshop.com

The story of slavery and abolition is most often told within national and
regional frames, and focuses mostly on the anti-slavery outlooks and
actions of elite figures who were not themselves enslaved. Professor
Knight, a specialist in the slave societies of the Americas and beyond, is
very familiar with the very different perspectives of the enslaved to
these questions. In his talk, he will discuss the lives, outlooks, and
actions of enslaved people as they survived, resisted, and fought to
overthrow the detested system that held them in bondage.

Conference registration online is ready. Register early!

Join the 10th anniversary conference celebrating and preserving Underground Railroad history in its national and international context
and its relationship with us today.

It’s the place to be on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 8, 9, and 10

Registration available at www.ugrworkshop.com or by calling 518-432-4432

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LEC: Who Owns Art? a conversation @ Pool Art Fair New York 2011

A conversation about co-option and ownership in contemporary creative practices

March 5th 6 – 8 PM

Thompson Hotel LES , 190 Allen St

Zulema Griffin proudly announces Who Owns Art?, an informal talk about co-option and ownership in contemporary art practices.  Organized by designer and filmmaker Zulema Griffin with Pool Art Fair, Who Owns Art? addresses notions of co-option in art practice and in the culture at large.

Ownership is the cornerstone of capitalism. The strained relationships between capitalism and the creative community force responses that push the boundaries of expression. This new dynamic also raises questions about how commercialization and mass production have affected how we understand creative practices.  Throughout history most cultures have developed a framework for individual ownership, but the technological advancements of the last 50 years, such as digital media, open source culture, Wiki code, and file sharing have raised concerns about intellectual property.

What are the relationships between intellectual property and art production?   What function does copyright play in our lives as cultural producers? How do we operate within the foundations of ownership while maintaining a vibrant public domain in the 21st century?  What are the implications of “Remix” culture?  The participating panelists are concerned with these and other artistic, philosophical, legal, and social issues.

This panel discussion is will follow a trailer viewing of the upcoming documentary Ink Bleach by Deux Conceptualiste Noir, a film about the co-option of Black aesthetics. The goal of Ink Bleach is to amplify the ongoing conversation about ownership.

Participating panelists are: Victor Davson, Kalia Brooks, Barron Claiborne, Rocio Alvarado, Zulema Griffin,.  Moderated by: Nicky Enright

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LEC: “Vodou, Islam, and the Making of the Afro-Atlantic” @ NYU

The New York University Postcolonial Colloquium presents a lecture with Prof. Aisha Khan.

“Vodou, Islam, and the Making of the Afro-Atlantic”
Date: Wednesday, March 9th, 6:30 p.m.
Place: 13-19 University Place, Room 222, New York University, NY, NY 10003

Aisha Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.  She is the author of Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad (Duke UP, 2004), and has published articles in numerous journals including the Journal of Historical Sociology, Small Axe, and Cultural Anthropology.  She is the co-editor of Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz (UNC Press, 2009) and editor of the forthcoming Islam and the Atlantic World.

For more information or to be added to our list, please visit www.nyupoco.com.

EXH: MoCADA at Verge Art Brooklyn, DUMBO, March 3-6

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Jeff Sims, Straddle, 2010
Porcelain, enamel, mdf

Please join MoCADA at Verge Art Brooklyn in DUMBO, March 3-6, 2011.
The opening party is Thursday, March 3, 10p – 4a, at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street
Our booth #6 is located at 81 Front Street, Ground Floor / One Main Street
One of our artists, Jeff Sims, was selected for Brooklyn Art Now: 2011 Survey Exhibition Curated by Loren Munik/James Kalm. 111 Front Street, Second Floor, Suites 200, 204 & 222
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please visit the link and see below for additional information

CFP: The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms

Proposal deadline: May 15, 2011.

The success of Modernist studies is attributable in part to its early recognition of its global scope and ambitions. However, despite laudable attempts to engage cultural difference and cultural studies texts within the discipline, a disconnect remains between transatlantic Modernist studies and global modernisms properfrom Hispanic and Brazilian Modernismos to Asian Modernisms to African Modernist works. In the history of Modernism/Modernity, for example, only one article has ever addressed the Spanish American modernist tradition. Very few have included examples of Asian or African modernisms. Our proposed collection seeks to begin a conversation about global modernisms in the broadest and most comparative sense.

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“Race in Classical Art,” Apollo Magazine, February 1, 2011

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/features/6642323/race-in-classical-art.thtml

EXH: “Red/Black: Related Through History” @ Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis

February 12, 2011 – August 7, 2011

Explore the interwoven histories of African Americans and Native Americans with Red/Black: Related Through History. This groundbreaking exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Eiteljorg Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Red/Black includes the NMAI panel exhibit IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas and portrays the shared experiences of African and Native Americans as allies and adversaries, through images, artifacts, film and more. The exhibition also explores issues of race and identity and the question: “Who am I and who gets to say so?” Red/Black will be supported by performances, genealogy workshops, lectures and other dynamic programming.

http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_WhatsHappening/Exhibitions/Details.asp?ID=2916

“Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century” Symposium, MOLAA/Getty

Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century is a two part symposium that will take place in Southern California and in Lima, Peru. The panel of speakers will be comprised of an international group of scholars, curators, museum directors and artists who will discuss new approaches to studying and presenting Latin American art in the 21st century. The first session, from March 11 – 13, 2011 will be held at MOLAA and at The Getty Center in Los Angeles; the second session, from November 2 – 4, 2011 will be held at the Museo de Arte de Lima in Peru. Both sessions will address the same topics but will introduce different speakers.

http://www.molaa.org/Art/Exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/Between-Theory-and-Practice-Rethinking-Latin-American-Art–in-the-21st-Century.aspx

EXH: “True Self: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art” @ MMoCA

Until June 2011

True Self: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art explores the ways artists have understood and conveyed the essence of the self—through facial expression, body language, dress, and the particulars of setting—in a selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs. Drawn from MMoCA’s permanent collection, the exhibition lists a broad range of artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Sonya Clark, Chuck Close, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Leslie, Diego Rivera, Cindy Sherman, Hollis Sigler, Raphael Soyer, and Ida Wyman.

True Self is organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and is on view in the museum’s Henry Street Gallery. Exhibitions in the Henry Street Gallery are generously funded through an endowment established by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.

http://www.mmoca.org/exhibitions/True_Self.php