|
|
FEATURED:
Race-ing Whimsy: Black and Asian figures in the Majolica Imaginary
October 21 at 6 pm
Zoom
Majolica’s reputation for ornament, historicism, and lighthearted eclecticism is well understood, and its astonishing breadth of styles and subjects and the explosion of factories that manufactured the popular ceramic ware are thoroughly chronicled in BGC’s exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Majolica Mania. Curator Susan Weber observed that majolica, more than any other ware of the era, makes visible and tangible the interests, desires, and anxieties of nineteenth-century consumers on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the ways in which majolica incorporated ideas of race into its enduring subjects has remained little discussed. With this in mind, Adrienne L. Childs, Sequoia Miller, and Iris Moon will consider issues of race and representation that were embedded in the majolica phantasmagoria of the nineteenth century.
|
|
|
|
This Week:
Hyalomania: Early Modern Glass Research Between the Disciplines
October 19, 2021 at 6 pm
Zoom
As one writer confessed in 1685, he and his peers had fallen prey to hyalomania, or a glass craze. By exploring how hyalomonia integrated varied forms of knowledge, Vera Keller shows how glass became a shared focus of attention spanning varied geographies, communities of expertise, and emergent scientific disciplines. This lecture asks what difference it makes when an object, even an imagined one like unbreakable glass, serves as the subject of inquiry.
|
|
Justice, Property, and Punishment: The Role of Montreal Sheriff Edward William Gray in Eighteenth-Century Quebec Slavery
October 21 at 12:15 pm
Zoom
The institution of Transatlantic Slavery was premised upon slave owner control and enacted through systematized violence, surveillance, and prohibitions imposed by slave owners and their surrogates. While white male overseers and slave patrols and black male slave drivers became normal aspects of tropical and semi-tropical plantation slavery, in Canada where cold winters made year-round mono-crop agriculture impossible, male adjuncts to slave owner power took other forms. Charmaine Nelson explores the role of the sheriff in eighteenth-century British slavery in the province of Quebec to understand the significant ways that the work of this British colonial official served to justify, sustain, and support slavery.
|
|
Next Week:
Through the Priest’s Ear: An Entangled Story of Life and Death at the Jesuit Church of San Ignacio, 1610–2021
October 26 at 6 pm
Zoom
Felipe Gaitan-Ammann will examine multiple avenues of interdisciplinary research arising from a vast archaeological dataset recently recovered at the Jesuit church of San Ignacio—one of the most significant colonial buildings still standing in the historical district of Bogotá, Colombia.
|
|
Beautiful and Deadly: The Dark Side of Pigment
October 29 at 12 pm
Zoom
Just in time for Halloween! Join us for a program investigating the dark side of some of the world’s most vibrant pigments. BGC professor Jennifer Mass will explain how lead, uranium, and arsenic are used to create these glorious but deadly hues and discuss their material histories with Dr. Spike Bucklow (University of Cambridge), author of Red: The Art and Science of a Colour.
|
|
COPY AND PASTE CODE BELOW TO MAILCHIMP
|
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Instagram