MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

2014 Schedule

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

8:30 – 8:50 a.m.                      Coffee and Registration

8:50 – 9:00 a.m.                      Welcome and Introduction

  • David W. Blight, Yale University
  • Cyra Levenson, Yale Center for British Art

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.                    Introductory Panel

  • Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, University of Chicago
  • Steven Pincus, Yale University
  • Geoff Quilley, University of Sussex
  • Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.                  Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. – 12: 30 p.m.        Lived Lives in Britain

  • Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University
  • Edward Rugemer, Yale University
  • Joseph Roach, Yale University
  • Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University

12:30 – 1:45 p.m.                    Lunch on your own

1:45 – 2:45 p.m.                  Breakout Sessions – See Below

2:45 – 4:30 p.m.                      Material Traces/Material Culture

  • Catherine A. Molineux, Vanderbilt University
  • James Walvin, University of York
  • Chi-ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania
  • Moderator: Gillian Forrester, Yale Center for British Art

SATURDAY, November 8

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.                      Coffee and Registration

9:00 – 10:45 a.m.                    Slavery and the Archive

  • Nicholas Draper, University College London
  • Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
  • Roxann Wheeler, The Ohio State University
  • Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University

10:45 – 11:45 a.m.                  Breakout Sessions – See Below

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.         Lunch on your own

1:00 – 2:45 p.m.                      Slavery and Public Display

  • Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps College
  • Wayne Modest, Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
  • Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop
  • Moderator: Cyra Levenson, Yale Center for British Art

2:45 – 3:00 p.m.                      Coffee break

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.                      Concluding Roundtable: New Directions in the Field

  • Timothy Barringer, Yale University
  • Sandra Jackson-Dumont, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
  • Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University
Breakout Sessions
Friday, November 7th / 1:45-2:45 pm
Figures of Empire exhibition tours | Third Floor, YCBA

Esther Chadwick, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale
University, Meredith Gamer, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, Cyra Levenson, Associate Curator of Education

The enslaved figure in British and American sculpture in the exhibition Sculpture Victorious | Second Floor, YCBA

Martina Droth, Associate Director of Research and Education, and Curator of Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art, and Tess Korobkin, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University

Legacies: Slavery and the diasporic aesthetic in the work of contemporary Afro-Caribbean artists | Study Room, Second Floor, YCBA

Gillian Forrester, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for
British Art, Heather V. Vermeulen, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University

A rediscovered portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701-1773): A curator’s view | Second Floor Classroom, YCBA

Lucy Peltz, Curator, 18th Century Collections, National Portrait Gallery, London

Breakout Sessions
Saturday, November 8th / 10:45-11:45 am
Figures of Empire exhibition tours | Third Floor, YCBA

Esther Chadwick, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale
University, Meredith Gamer, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, Cyra Levenson, Associate Curator of Education

The enslaved figure in British and American sculpture in the exhibition Sculpture Victorious | Second Floor, YCBA

Martina Droth, Associate Director of Research and Education, and Curator of Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art, and Tess Korobkin, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University

Legacies: Slavery and the diasporic aesthetic in the work of contemporary Afro-Caribbean artists | Study Room, Second Floor, YCBA

Gillian Forrester, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for
British Art, Heather V. Vermeulen, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University

A rediscovered portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701-1773): A curator’s view | Second Floor Classroom, YCBA

Lucy Peltz, Curator, 18th Century Collections, National Portrait Gallery, London

Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, an exhibition at the Lewis Walpole Library | Lecture Hall, YCBA

Heather V. Vermeulen, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and American Studies, Yale University