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The Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Emancipatory Projects by Black French Caribbean Artists
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- Open to the public
Prof. Babana-Hampton (Michigan State U) will be giving our annual Fauvel Lecture on April 11th. The talk is entitled "The Historical Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Emancipatory Projects by Black French Caribbean Artists Today" and will discuss Prof. Babana-Hampton's new documentary "Choeurs Atlantiques/ Tales from the Atlantic Beyond" (public screening on April 10th). Weaving archival and oral history research with a rich tapestry of black artistic expressions, this film takes viewers to the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, mainland France, and Francophone West Africa (Senegal). It spotlights the creative and critical engagement of artists, historians and cultural actors in the francophone black diaspora with the legacies of the slave trade and of slavery as they intersect with their anti-racist activism and future visions of more just and equitable worlds.
Sponsored by: French & Francophone Studies