Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

Friday, October 22
Wren Room, Sanborn House

• Coffee

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

• Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, University of Chicago and
• Angela Rosenthal, Dartmouth College

Opening Lecture

• "Slavery and the Possibilities of Portraiture," Marcia Pointon, Professor Emerita, Manchester University
• Introduction: Kathleen Corrigan, Dept. of Art History, Dartmouth College

• Lunch

Afternoon Session I

1:30-3:00

• "Albert Eckhout's African Woman and Child in Dutch Brazil (1641): In Search of the Subject," Rebecca Parker Brienen, University of Miami
• "Becoming the "Self" or Somebody Else: Slave Portraiture in Imperial Spain," Carmen Fracchia, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Moderator: Israel Reyes, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College

• Coffee

Afternoon Session II

3:15-4:45

• "Other Encounters: Slaves and Artists in Early-Modern Senegal," Mark Hinchman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• "Framing the Black Portrait in the Spanish Colonial World: Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean Region," María Elena Díaz, University of California Santa Cruz
• Moderator: Ayo A. Coly, African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College

Reception

• Reception at the Hood Museum of Art's Kim Gallery
• Welcome by Kathy Hart, Interim Director, and Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming, Hood Museum of Art and tour of the exhibition Beyond East and West with Barbara Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art.

Saturday, October 22
Rockefeller Center

• Coffee

Opening Lecture

• "Race and Beauty in the Era of Slavery," Nell I. Painter, Professor Emerita, Princeton University
• Introduction: Deborah King, Dept. of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College

• Coffee

Morning Session

• "Representing New World Africans within the Cultures of Natural History," Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
• "Three Gentlemen from Esmeralda: A Portrait Fit for a King," Tom Cummins, Harvard University
• Moderator: Silvia Spitta, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College

• Lunch

Afternoon Session I

• "The Many Faces of Toussaint-Louverture," Helen Weston, University College London
• "Who is the Subject? M.G. Benoist's Portrait d'une Negresse," Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff, Trier University, Germany
• Moderator: Mary Jean Green, Dept. of French and Italian, Dartmouth College

• Coffee

Afternoon Session II

• "Black Jokes: Caricature, Racial Science, and Abolition c. 1800," Kay Dian Kriz, Brown University
• "The Slave Portrait: An Oxymoron?" David Bindman, University College London
• Moderator: Kathy Hart, Interim Director, and Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

Poetry Reading

• Francine A'Ness and William W. Cook
• Introduction: Melissa Zeiger, Dept. of English, Dartmouth College