{"id":16071,"date":"2023-10-22T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?p=16071"},"modified":"2023-11-12T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T14:39:22","slug":"2023-2024-guest-lecture-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/2023\/10\/22\/2023-2024-guest-lecture-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2023-2024 Guest Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 8th, at 6:30pm \u2013 CAS 211\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(725 Commonwealth Avenue)
\nDr. Jennifer Van Horn<\/strong>
\nAssociate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware
\nTitle:<\/strong>\u201cFlora\u2019s Profile: Enslavement, Resistance, and Haptic Memory\u201d<\/p>\n

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This talk centers an amazing survival: a silhouette of an enslaved woman, Flora, made in Connecticut in the 1790s. But made by whom and for what purpose? While this portrait has long been associated with Flora\u2019s sale, recent research suggests the silhouette could have a different origin and was possibly even the work of an enslaved female maker. I will place Flora\u2019s profile within the rich history of early Black American\u2019s silhouette production and women\u2019s intergenerational memory making through the haptic manipulation of hair, paper, and textiles. Together these contexts suggest how Flora\u2019s silhouette preserved a trace of her fleeting subjectivity that perhaps conjured her memory for the eyes, but also the touch, of the enslaved and free Black women who might have made and treasured her image.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, November 8th, at 6:30pm \u2013 CAS 211\u00a0(725 Commonwealth Avenue) Dr. Jennifer Van Horn Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware Title:\u201cFlora\u2019s Profile: Enslavement, Resistance, and Haptic Memory\u201d This talk centers an amazing survival: a silhouette of an enslaved woman, Flora, made in Connecticut in the 1790s. But made by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2318,"featured_media":14326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions\/16072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}