Booking and details
Dates Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4pm ET
Tickets Free, Registration Required
Virtual Folger Salon
Learn about research happening at the Folger in real time! Each month, Folger Institute scholar and artist fellows will share their most exciting finds and thought-provoking challenges, followed by casual open conversation.
This is a free event on Zoom. Registration required.
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.
Speakers
Edel Lamb
Dr. Edel Lamb is a Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Queen’s University Belfast.
Dominick Porras
Dominick Porras is an Indigenous multidisciplinary artist and academic instructor residing in California. His practice, which is grounded in lens-based media, archival investigation, and Chicano/Coahuiltecan heritage, foregrounds community-based methodologies and intertribal collaboration. Over the past two decades, Porras has been a key cultural worker and co-founder of Sol Collective, a Sacramento non-profit that merges arts, activism, and community education. His photographic and media work has played a central role in defining the organization’s visual language and public presence. Porras earned his MFA in Studio Art from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2023 and currently teaches courses in photography and New Media.
Susan Valladares
Susan Valladares is Associate Professor in Drama post–1660 at Durham University.
Content Transparency
This presentation includes potentially sensitive subjects. Expand below for a full list of content.
This presentation includes an image of a white actor in blackface and a stylized representation of a Black actor. These images could be jarring or disturbing, especially for those unfamiliar with the prevalence of these practices in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theatrical histories. These images are displayed briefly and only in the context of the performance choices discussed.
The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
In his groundbreaking documentary, We Were Here, Folger Fellow Fred Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe—princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knights—all revealed through art from the period.
Artist Dominick Porras Reconstructs Classical Narratives of the Americas
Porras, a Folger Artist Fellow, shares what inspired him, from the Folger collection to Indigenous futurism, in the creation of his new media work, de Bry’s Slipstream.
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