Monday, October 1, 2012
Wood Auditorium
David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University English and Comparative Literature
Mabel Wilson, Columbia University GSAPP
Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University GSAPP
Interdisciplinary thinkers discuss Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, Mabel Wilson’s history of black American’s participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation exhibitions, and early black grassroots museums. Cultural critic Kobena Mercer has praised Wilson’s “highly original study of the role of world’s fairs in the making of a black public sphere” for “vividly illuminat[ing] the transition from Reconstruction to Afro-Modernity with page-turning brilliance.”
http://events.gsapp.org/event/mark-negro-building-black-americans-in-the-world-of-fairs-and-museums
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