Tuesday, Oct 01, 2024
10:30AM to 3:00PM
Daytime: HQ532; Evening: HQ134
We invite you to join us for an exciting day of study with Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University History) and Aurélie Vialette (Yale Spanish & Portuguese) focused on the Atlantic History of Slavery and its Memory. The day will be divided into two sessions, one in the morning and one in the early afternoon, and will culminate in a public lecture by Ana Lucia Araujo in the evening.
In the morning and early afternoon sessions, Ana Lucia Araujo and Aurélie Vialette will workshop with graduate students the art of archival research, and of writing from the archive—traversing genres, disciplines, geographies and time periods to produce original and engaging scholarship. We invite graduate students from our Department of Spanish & Portuguese, and across the Humanities and Social Sciences at Yale to participate in this workshop.
☞ Graduate students who participate in the workshop will receive a certificate of completion.
In order to prepare for this workshop, we will read the chapter on “Battles of Public Memory” from Araujo’s book, Slavery in the Age of Memory (Bloomsbury, 2020), and “Sex and Violence” from her most recent book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (Chicago Press, 2024). From Aurélie Vialette, we will read two selections from the volume Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain which she edited in collaboration with Akiko Tsuchiya (SUNY Press, 2024), the “Introduction” to the volume, and her contribution, “Cosmetic of the Archive.”
For the early afternoon session, we will be joined by Prof. Marcela Echeverri (Yale History). We have included in the readings her entry, “Antislavery and Abolition in the Spanish American Mainland,” from the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (Oxford Press).
HQ532 has limited sitting, so we ask that you RSVP if you plan to attend. You only have to RSVP once.
Lunch will be served for participants of the daytime seminars and invited guests. Please RSVP to ensure we have enough food for everyone.
Ana Lucia Araujo is a historian and Professor at the Department of History at the historically Black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. She specializes in the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and is interested in the visual and material culture of slavery. Her work has been funded by the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, CA), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the American Philosophical Society. Her recent books are The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024). She is currently working on four different projects, including “The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas” (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
Aurélie Vialette is Associate Professor Tenure and Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies for Spanish. Prof. Vialette specializes in 19th-century Iberian cultural studies: carceral studies, disability studies, transatlantic studies, slavery networks, Filipino studies, popular music, journalistic discourse, archival studies, mass and working-class organizations, and Catalan Studies. She is the author of Intellectual Philanthropy: the Seduction of the Masses (Purdue University Press, 2018), recipient of the North American Catalan Society Prize for Outstanding Work in the Field of Catalan Studies, 2019. Her most recently edited volume, Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain, co-edited with Akiko Tsuchiya (SUNY Press, 2025), addresses the question of how modern Spanish cultural productions and institutions reflect and shape ways of understanding the history of a nation sustained on colonialism and slavery.