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The From Slavery to Freedom Lab presents a two-day conference to explore iconic images and popular constructions of blackness in culture.

Following the keynote conversation with Titus Kaphar on Thursday, January 16th, on Friday, January 17th, a panel and series of presentations will take place in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall at the Franklin Humanities Institute from 10am–3pm.

SCHEDULE:

10am | Light breakfast served

10:30am–12:15pm | Panel 1: Icons of Slavery and Freedom

• Jasmine Nichole Cobb (moderator) | Bacca Foundation Associate Professor African & African American Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University
• Cheryl Finley | Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Director at Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies
• Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby | Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of the Arts & Humanities, History of Art at U.C. Berkeley

12:15pm | Lunch served

1:00pm–3:00pm | Panel 2: New Black Aesthetics (Speakers will each present a 20 minute paper followed by a a 10 minute Q+A.)

• Meg Onli | Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania
• Rhea L. Combs | Curator at Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History & Culture
• Richard J. Powell | John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University

Reception to follow.

This event is cosponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute as part of its World Arts speaker series; the Nasher Museum of Art; the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts—Duke Arts; the department of African & African American Studies; the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship; Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity; and the department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.