Special Lecture: Slave Trade, Witchcraft, Art: Material and Spiritual Histories of the Afro-Atlantic (Cécile Fromont)

Register today to join the Department for the Study of Religion (DSR) for “Slave Trade, Witchcraft, Art: Material and Spiritual Histories of the Afro-Atlantic,” a thought-provoking lecture about the spiritual and material histories of the Atlantic world as shared domains between Europeans and Africans, and the entangled trajectories of slave trade, witchcraft and art. 

This Annual DSR Alumni & Friends Lecture will be delivered by Cécile Fromont, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, and Faculty Director of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Professor Fromont’s research and teaching focus is on the visual, material and religious cultures of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early modern period in the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic World. 

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies, and the African Studies Centre. 

A hybrid event delivered in-person and on Zoom.

4 to 5:30 pm EDT
Lecture and Q&A 

5:30 to 6:30 pm EDT
Light refreshments served 

Paul Cadario Conference
Centre, University College 
15 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7