Workshop/Symposium: Sugar and the Early Modern Atlantic World
Date and Time
November 3, 2019
02:00PM - 04:00PM EST
Location
Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Abstract: “One of the world’s most coveted commodities, sugar is an agent of both delight and oppression. Examine sugar within the wider historical context of trade, commerce, and slavery that organized the Atlantic world in the 17th and 18th centuries. Uncover the relationship between art, sugar, and slavery, and how sugar production and trade relates to the MFA’s Dutch and American still lifes, landscapes, and genre paintings and decorative arts.”
Speakers include:
Vincent Brown, professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Dennis Carr, Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Michiel van Groesen, professor of Maritime History, Leiden University
Antien Knaap, curatorial research fellow, Art of Europe
Performance by Jean Appolon Expressions
For further details and ticketing click here:
https://www.mfa.org/event/lecture/sugar-and-the-early-modern-atlantic-world?event=46826
Students can reserve free tickets by emailing: collegeprograms@mfa.org. Their Harvard ID will give them free access to the museum.