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TLRH | The Death of the National Museum of Brazil: Slavery Heritage on the Edge
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Trinity Long Room Hub
Monday, March 22, 2021
TLRH | The Death of the National Museum of Brazil: Slavery Heritage on the Edge
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities
Monday, March 22, 2021
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM GMT
Online event
Register at link below
Details
An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington.
This lecture will be delivered in English
This lecture examines the history of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, destroyed by the fire in September 2018. Araujo explores the connections between the museum's building and the formation of its collections associated with the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Brazil, the country that imported the largest number of enslaved Africans (nearly five million) during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. The museum housed the oldest collection of African artifacts in the country. Several of these artifacts were given as gifts to the Portuguese Prince Regent (who later became king) by the king of Dahomey, in the context of transactions to facilitate the trade in enslaved Africans between Brazil and the West African Kingdom of Dahomey. In the past two decades, the museum, like a few other Brazilian institutions, was investing in reorganizing its exhibitions to bring to light the links between Africa and Brazil, a dimension that until recently remained absent from Brazilian museum institutions. Araujo shows that the destruction of the museum as a result of federal government's neglect reveals a reality that affect many other big or small museums whose collections derive from the country's long history of slavery.
The event will also feature a short response to the lecture from Lar Joye, Port Heritage Director at Dublin Port and Chair of the Irish National Committee of the Blue Shield.
About the speaker
Ana Lucia Araujo is a full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. She holds a dual PhD in History/Social and Historical Anthropology from Université Laval, Canada, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France (2007) and a PhD in Art History from Université Laval, Canada. (2004). Her recent single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015). She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project.
https://www.meetup.com/Trinity-Long-Room-Hub-Arts-Humanities/events/276945769/
Hosted by
Trinity Long Room Hub
Monday, March 22, 2021
TLRH | The Death of the National Museum of Brazil: Slavery Heritage on the Edge
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities
Monday, March 22, 2021
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM GMT
Online event
Register at link below
Details
An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington.
This lecture will be delivered in English
This lecture examines the history of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, destroyed by the fire in September 2018. Araujo explores the connections between the museum's building and the formation of its collections associated with the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Brazil, the country that imported the largest number of enslaved Africans (nearly five million) during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. The museum housed the oldest collection of African artifacts in the country. Several of these artifacts were given as gifts to the Portuguese Prince Regent (who later became king) by the king of Dahomey, in the context of transactions to facilitate the trade in enslaved Africans between Brazil and the West African Kingdom of Dahomey. In the past two decades, the museum, like a few other Brazilian institutions, was investing in reorganizing its exhibitions to bring to light the links between Africa and Brazil, a dimension that until recently remained absent from Brazilian museum institutions. Araujo shows that the destruction of the museum as a result of federal government's neglect reveals a reality that affect many other big or small museums whose collections derive from the country's long history of slavery.
The event will also feature a short response to the lecture from Lar Joye, Port Heritage Director at Dublin Port and Chair of the Irish National Committee of the Blue Shield.
About the speaker
Ana Lucia Araujo is a full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. She holds a dual PhD in History/Social and Historical Anthropology from Université Laval, Canada, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France (2007) and a PhD in Art History from Université Laval, Canada. (2004). Her recent single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015). She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project.
https://www.meetup.com/Trinity-Long-Room-Hub-Arts-Humanities/events/276945769/