Plantation Returns Visualizing Space and Medicalizing Bodies in the Colonial World

Lindner Lecture Series

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies/Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

This talk will discuss the representation of plantations in nineteenth-century British colonial art, it will explore the importance of these spaces as sites where medical and artistic knowledge could be produced and consider how contemporary artists work with these histories to imagine new forms of care for each other and the environments in which we live.

William Berryman, View of Lucky Valley Estate Buildings, Clarendon, 1808, Watercolour