Alex Callender: Slavery North Fellow Talk

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Join Slavery North for the fourth in our series of five Fellow Talks in Spring 2025. Professor Alex Callender shares how her artistic practice traces the way Northern Slavery shaped ecological histories, plant migrations, and conceptions of landscape and racialized geographies.

Speaker: Alex Callender, Artist-in-Residence Fellow, Spring 2025

Moderator: Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson, Provost Professor of Art History & Founding Director Slavery North

Lecture: Imaginative Geographies and Radical Annotation

Lecture Abstract:
Northern Slavery and the histories or racial formation which have shaped our present are also recorded through ecological histories, plant migrations, and conceptions of landscape and racialized geographies. Engaging colonial archives as space for errantry and artistic intervention, may invite other ways to imagine human and non-human relations that were indelibly reframed through Atlantic Slavery and the economic systems of racial capitalism left in its wake.