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SUMMARY:Honor and Risk: Recovering Afro-Atlantic Power and Its Objects fro
 m the Archives of Enslavement by Cécile Fromont
LOCATION:Rush Rhees Library Humanities Center Conference Room D\, 755 Libr
 ary Road\, Rochester\, NY 14627
DESCRIPTION:Cécile Fromont – Professor of History of Art and Architecture\
 , Harvard University\n\nIn the first half of the eighteenth century\, Afr
 ican men and women enslaved or free\, living in plantations or cities aro
 und the Atlantic\, created empowered packets that protected them and thei
 r clients against physical\, social\, and spiritual vulnerability. These 
 packets\, though little known today\, have deeply shaped the nature of po
 wer and the modes of its exercise in the Atlantic world since the era of 
 the Enlightenment. The traces left of them in the archives are faint\, fr
 agmented\, and marred by the violence that European religious and civil a
 uthorities tirelessly wielded against them and their makers in the hope t
 o better understand their nature and contravene their powers.\n\nWhat met
 hods can historians devise to reconstitute the Afro-Atlantic knowledge an
 d techniques lost in the destruction of the packets and the silencing of 
 their makers? What procedures can scholars design to rescue from the arch
 ives of enslavement meaningful fragments that may bring back to life thes
 e ancestral objects? What are the risks inherent to such attempts?\n\nThi
 s talk explores the possibilities and the dangers of recovering Afro-Atla
 ntic power and its objects from the archives of enslavement and of honori
 ng the humanity of empowered-packet makers by writing their life and deed
 s into the annals of human history.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/b94ff6
 33-63a9-41e7-8933-3e772a00c3ce
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/b94ff633-63a9-41e7-8933-3e772a00c3ce
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