The SlaveVoyages website is currently hosted by Rice University and is the result of years of research and development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, who have worked together to create a comprehensive Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade database comprised of maps, timelines, and animations.
Next month, researchers and scholars associated with the website will be presenting a two day in-person conference, Bound Away: Voyages of Enslavement in the Americas, to report some of these researchers’ findings in addition to new developments to the website.
Among the many Rice faculty and students who will be presenting at the event, Lynne Lee, Department of Art History Ph.D. student and conference organizer, will be presenting her paper "Questioning Archival Images in Rosana Paulino’s 2018 Collages," in the panel "Afro-Atlantic Art and Architecture from Slavery to the Present,” chaired by HART Associate Professor Fabiola López-Durán, on December 4th from 2:00pm-3:15pm.
Each day of presentations will conclude with a tour of the current exhibits at the Moody Center for the Arts with Kapwani Kiwanga's The Sand Recalls the Moon's Shadow and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with Afro-Atlantic Histories on December 3rd and 4th, respectively.
Dates: December 3 - 4, 2021
Locations: Dec. 3 - Moody Center for the Arts | Lois Chiles Theater; Dec. 4 - MFAH | Brown Auditorium
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