2024-2025 Stanford Distinguished Professors in the Humanities
SPRING 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025 @ 7:00 pm
Kislak Center at the University of Miami
Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States
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Thursday, March 20, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
Marlene Daut, Professor of French & African Diaspora Studies, Yale University
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FALL 2024
Thursday, September 26 @ 5:00 pm
Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
"Imagining the Museum of Slavery"
Charles Forsdick, Drapers Professor of French, Cambridge University
Co-Sponsored by the University of Miami Departments of Anthropology, History, & Modern Languages and Literatures.
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The Center for the Humanities, along with colleagues from the University of Miami, would like to invite you to a public lecture by Professor Charles Forsdick.
The inauguration of the International Slavery Museum (ISM) in Liverpool in 2007 has provided a template for early twenty-first-century institutions seeking to engage with innovative museology relating to the representations of enslavement. Charles Forsdick will situate the imagination of ISM as a museum of slavery as a foundational case study in the broader context of national commemorations (in response to whose customary foregrounding of philanthropy and legislative approaches to abolition, it asserted the agency of the enslaved). Forsdick suggests that the Liverpool museum provided an experimental space in which it was possible to imagine the purpose, define the content and test the parameters of a lieu de mémoire devoted to slavery, the legacies of enslavement and anti-racist education. He will explore the ways in which the Liverpool museum has gone on to serve as a point of reference to inspire the development of museums of slavery, where these institutions draw on aspects of ISM to situate themselves in their own complex, multi-layered cityscapes and memoryscapes. As further sites have been developed, including new museums and memorials in the USA, the need to understand the genealogies of the museum of slavery, with their national variations and international trends, has become increasingly urgent.
Charles Forsdick is a Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow at Murray Edwards College. His teaching and research interests include: Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history and postcolonial memory; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction. He has served as President of the Society for French Studies, 2012-14 and as Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, 2010-13. A Member of the Academy of Europe and Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is also currently Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy. Charles is also Honorary Professor in the Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool. He edits or co-edits three series for Liverpool University Press, and since 2019, has been a member of the conseil scientifique of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’Esclavage.
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Sunday, December 8: Art Week Bubbles and Brunch featuring
Virgil Ortiz: The Future of History
Virgil Ortiz has masterfully redefined what it means to be a contemporary Native American artist navigating the global art world while staying rooted in his Cochiti Pueblo traditions. Ortiz's epic retelling of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt unfolds by illustrating past and present-day social issues through his inventive futuristic protagonists. In this conversation the artist will explore his work, creative process, and unique voice, which is highlighted in Virgil Ortiz: Slipstream (on view at the Lowe Art Museum through January 11, 2025).
Organized in collaboration with the Lowe Art Museum and the Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami
9:00 - 11:00am | Prosecco Brunch @ the Lowe Art Museum | 1301 Coral Gables, FL 33143
11:15am - 12:00pm | Lecture with the distinguished artist and designer Virgil Ortiz @ Lakeside Auditorium | across the street from the Lowe Art Museum
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Confirming your attendance in advance enables sufficient set-up for the program. We look forward to seeing you there!
