Academic Sessions: Exeter 1998
Traded Identities: Visualizing Circumatlantic Exchanges in the Long Eighteenth Century
Conveners:
Geoff Quilley (University of Leicester) and Dr Dian Kriz (Brown University)
The traffic in goods and people across the Atlantic in the long 18th century produced new and fluctuating forms of identity, based on complex relationships between Europe, the Americas and Africa. While there is a growing body of scholarship analysing the role of written texts in producing these 'triangulated' identities, much less consideration has been given to relevant aspects of visual culture.
This session provides a forum for examining how such identities (whether of social types such as the mulatto or the planter; of communities; or of named individuals) were visually constructed and contested. Areas which might be addressed are: the construction of identity in relation to discourses of science, exploration, commerce, empire or the slave trade; cultural or geographical difference in the visualization of identity (for example, did French representations of America differ from British ones?); the relation of colonial to metropolitan identity.
Contributors should be broad-minded in their understanding of visual culture. While representations frequently involved the image of the human body, we welcome papers which consider the role of landscape, maps, ceramics, or other forms of material culture, in fashioning circumatlantic identities.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the conveners at the following addresses:
Geoff Quilley, Department of History of Art, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH.
Tel: (0116) 252 2838; Fax: (0116) 252 5128; Email: gq2@le.ac.uk
Dr Dian Kriz, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Box 1855, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 02912, USA.
Tel:(401) 863 7286 (wk) (401) 351 4678 (hm)
Geoff Quilley (University of Leicester) and Dr Dian Kriz (Brown University)
The traffic in goods and people across the Atlantic in the long 18th century produced new and fluctuating forms of identity, based on complex relationships between Europe, the Americas and Africa. While there is a growing body of scholarship analysing the role of written texts in producing these 'triangulated' identities, much less consideration has been given to relevant aspects of visual culture.
This session provides a forum for examining how such identities (whether of social types such as the mulatto or the planter; of communities; or of named individuals) were visually constructed and contested. Areas which might be addressed are: the construction of identity in relation to discourses of science, exploration, commerce, empire or the slave trade; cultural or geographical difference in the visualization of identity (for example, did French representations of America differ from British ones?); the relation of colonial to metropolitan identity.
Contributors should be broad-minded in their understanding of visual culture. While representations frequently involved the image of the human body, we welcome papers which consider the role of landscape, maps, ceramics, or other forms of material culture, in fashioning circumatlantic identities.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the conveners at the following addresses:
Geoff Quilley, Department of History of Art, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH.
Tel: (0116) 252 2838; Fax: (0116) 252 5128; Email: gq2@le.ac.uk
Dr Dian Kriz, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Box 1855, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 02912, USA.
Tel:(401) 863 7286 (wk) (401) 351 4678 (hm)