Reconfiguring Black Europe
When:
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Venue:
Senate House
No booking required
How can we dislocate European Blackness (as ontology, identity, or ideology) from its implicit racial-historical point of departure in order to arrive at as-yet undefined conceptualizations of subjectivity, belonging, and aesthetics? What does Blackness mean in/for Europe? What elements of Blackness or Black diasporic identity are privileged in European discourses and how do these configurations solidify hegemonic expectations of racial/gendered/classed normativity? This event aims to foreground less explored/familiar paradigms of Blackness throughout Europe with the intention of unsettling what has become taken for granted in contemporary discussions of 'Black Europe'.
As part of this event, Dr Carmen Fracchia - Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Spanish Visual Studies - will be giving a paper entitled 'Picturing "Blackness" in Imperial Spain'.
For more information and programme, visit the workshop website.