Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast Keynote

Join a panel of scholars for a daylong symposium that examines Western sculpture in relation to the histories of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and empire. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast.

Keynote Introduction
Denise Murrell, Associate Curator, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art, The Met

Keynote Speaker
Charmaine A. Nelson
Professor of Art History and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Transatlantic Black Diasporic Art and Community Engagement, Department of Art History and Contemporary Culture, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University

The symposium is made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lockwood Chilton, Jr.

Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 521, Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery, through March 5, 2023.

The exhibition is made possible by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.

Additional support is provided by Allen R. Adler and Frances F. L. Beatty.

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