Materializing Race
UNCONFERENCE
We would like to thank the Society of Winterthur Fellows for their generous sponsorship of this event.
Day One
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Day One: Monday, August 24,2020, 1:00-3:45PM EST
Panel I: Adornment, Agency & the Body​
Day One Moderator:
Zara Anishanslin
University of Delaware
Fellow 2020-21, Davis Center, Department of History,
Princeton University
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The Deerskin as Signifier of Timucuan Racial Identity in Theodor de Bry’s Brevis narratio eorum quæ in Florida (1591)
Thomas Balfe
University of Edinburgh
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‘They are greatlye Diligted with puppets’: The Materiality of Wax and the Body in Atlantic Encounters
Laura Earls
University of Delaware
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Dispossession in Lace: Jacobean Ruffs and Materializing White Authority in Jamestown
Lauren Working
University of Oxford
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Beads of Resistance: Trans-Atlanticism, Abolition and Anti-Blackness
Kerry Sinanan
University of Texas at San Antonio
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The Racecraft of Early American Jewish Miniatures
Laura Arnold Leibman
Reed College
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Indigeneity, Disability, and Metalsmithing in Sequoyah’s Silver Medal
Natalie Wright
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Day One: Monday, August 24,2020
Panel II: Resistance, Ritual & Performativity
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Black Sanctity
Miguel A. Valerio
Washington University in St. Louis
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Hiding Places and Living Spaces: An Archaeology of Building Deposits in Plural Contexts
Rebekah Planto
The College of William and Mary
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Pentecostal Dance and Proto-Abolitionist Noise on the Appalachian Watersheds: The Case of Cane Ridge
Christopher Smith
Texas Tech University School of Music
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Enslaved People’s Concealment of Objects at Stagville Plantation
Whitney Nell Stewart
University of Texas at Dallas
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Slavery in Paper and Polychrome: Temporality and Materiality in the Dioramas of Gerrit Schouten
Nicholas Rinehart
Dartmouth College
Day Two
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Day Two: Tuesday, August 25,2020, 1:00-3:45PM EST
Panel III: [Dis]Possession & Personhood
Day Two Moderator:
Janine Yorimoto Boldt
American Philosophical Society
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Creole Conversation Pieces: Philip Wickstead in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Chloe Northrop
Tarrant County College
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A Seraglio in Connecticut: Race, Slavery, and Feminine Virtue in New England Schoolgirl Art
Emily Wells
The College of William and Mary
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The Bag my Kunsi Made: ‘Settlement,’ Indigeneity, and the Narrative Erasure of Slavery in Wisconsin’s History
Kai Pyle
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Colonizing Taste: A Mesoamerican Staple in Casta and Contemporary Art
Sheila Scoville
Florida State University
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What the Sub-Floor Pit Holds: Musical Instruments as a Missing Artifact in the Archaeological Record
Luke J. Pecoraro
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
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A Colony in Birch Bark: Exploring the Indigenous Materialities of Elizabeth Simcoe’s Picturesque Landscapes
Mairead Horton
Day Two: Tuesday, August 25,2020
Panel IV: Revolution & Sovereignty
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Spirit Bottles
Jeremy Dennis
Shinnecock Indian Nation, New York, and On This Site: Indigenous Long Island
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Forging Freedom: Enslaved African Americans at James Hunter’s Iron Works
Kate Gruber
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
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Representations of Race and Identity in Jonathas Granville’s Portrait
Bethânia Santos Pereira
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
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The Myth of the Tignon and the Invention of New Orleans
Jonathan M. Square
Harvard University
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Ultima Ratio: Confronting the Power of Haitian Artillery in Northern New York
Matthew Keagle
Fort Ticonderoga
Four Creole Women
Date: 1770
Place: Guadeloupe
Maker: Joseph Savart
Location: Musée Schœlcher
Collection
Accession No.: 2009.1.1