Cécile Fromont
@CecileFromont
art historian @Yale • visual, material & religious culture of Kongo, Angola, Brazil, early modern Atlantic world • from #Martinique
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http://www.cecilefromont.com 18-10-2014 02:32:30
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A new chapter ahead. After six bulldog-perfect years Yale University, I am taking a joyful leap (back) to Harvard University
Matondo! Thank you Kongo Academy for bringing us together! Friends, if you have not yet, go check out kongoacademy.org It's where it's at.
“Whatever the object needs” is how Cécile Fromont does her work, in discussing where periodization is helpful and where it’s constraining due to its bureaucratic functions. #rensa24 . Of some value notes Ricardo Padron: “we’re not the everything society of America.”
“The work of early career scholars who are creating new fields have more to do… the metadata needs to be created, which is not the case if you’re working in Shakespeare.” Still well worth doing, but the time and effort needs to be recognized. Cécile Fromont #rensa24 The Renaissance Society of America
Crew members of our #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative digital initiative get more than one post! Revisit the classic and multi-award winning The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo by Cecile Fromont Cécile Fromont (and give her a follow!) uncpress.org/book/978146964…
If you are nearby don’t miss this superb event featuring historian of art Cécile Fromont #slaveryarchive
It’s #womenhistorymonth and we are here to read, cote, promote, and celebrate the work of women scholars. Check Cécile Fromont’s latest book Images on a Mission to educate yourself in visual culture of West Central Africa and of slave trade psupress.org/books/titles/9… #slaveryarchive
DSR Alumni & Friends Lecture with Cécile Fromont, Feb 28, 4 pm EST, hybrid. The Atlantic world's spiritual & material histories as shared by Europeans & Africans, & entanglement of slave trade, witchcraft & art. buff.ly/3OclsAU Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies UofT Art History New College Toronto
Did you realize that Valades’ Rhetorica Christiana has etched not engraved ills (and thus, is always labeled wrong)? Please read my article in Art History to see why that matters.!!! Part of a special issue edited by Cécile Fromont and Esther Chadwick onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…
The members of the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative international advisory board are publishing great work. Pre-order Dr. Alex Gil 🏳️'s new book 'And the Dogs Were Silent' with Duke University Press dukeupress.edu/and-the-dogs-w…
