“The Value of an Unflinching Gaze: Portraiture, Enslavement, and the Process of Locating Black Women in the 16th Century.”
Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University
Wed, 4/2 · 5:00 pm—7:30 pm · Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies
2025 Meredith Miller Memorial Lecture
Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Professor Morgan’s work focuses on the institutionalization of race-based slavery in early America and the Black Atlantic, and she has been named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan shares her efforts to understand the African woman painted holding a clock in Bologna in 1585.
The talk engages both with material culture, scholarship on Art History, the Early Modern Black Atlantic world, and the provocation of critical fabulation.
This event is free and open to the public.
Co-sponsors:
- Princeton Public Lectures
- Community & Regional Affairs
- Effron Center for the Study of America
- Department of African American Studies
