Joncus, Berta. 2023. Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century. Symposium and Concert at Columbia University 6 May 2023. Columbia University, New York. [Other]

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Opposition to slavery and the slave trade permeated the art worlds of literature, music, and visual art in the long eighteenth century. Europeans and Americans composed poetic critiques of the slave trade, sang songs of sympathy for enslaved people, and engraved images that asserted the common humanity of Africans and Europeans. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together musicologists, literary and theater scholars, art historians, and historians to think through the connections between the arts and the history of abolitionism in the Atlantic world. The symposium will feature opening remarks by Atesede Makonnen (literature, Columbia University), two interdisciplinary panels of read papers, and a plenary dialogue between Adrienne Childs (art history, The Phillips Collection) and Patricia A. Matthew (literature, Montclair State University). The day will conclude with a concert of rarely-heard abolitionist songs from the long eighteenth century performed by Awet Andemicael (soprano, Yale University) and Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (piano, Columbia University). Please visit the full conference website for more information.

10:00am – 5:00pm Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Heyman Center
5:30pm Concert at the Maison Française (Register here)

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	"Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century," an interdisciplinary symposium theld at Columbia University on Saturday, May 6, 2023. The symposium was organized by members of the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture (Julia Hamilton, Stephanie Insley Hershinow, and Patricia A. Matthew) in collaboration with the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London (represented by Berta Joncus).
Keywords:	Abolition, song, 18th-century drama, Black history
Related URLs:	https://sofheyman.org/events/abolition-a...
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Music
Date:	6 May 2023
Item ID:	35384
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2024 12:59
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2024 15:28
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35384

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