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MSU English’s Prof. Patricia Matthew co-organizing the Columbia University symposium Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century

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MSU English’s Prof. Patricia Matthew co-organizing the Columbia University symposium Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century
May 6, 2023
Columbia University

CHSS English department Professor Patricia Matthew is the co-organizer of the upcoming “Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century.”. This one-day interdisciplinary symposium, to be held at Columbia University on May 6, 2023, brings together musicologists, literary and theater scholars, art historians, and historians to think through the connections between the arts and the history of abolitionism in the Atlantic world. Prof. Matthew will appear at the symposium in a plenary dialogue with Adrienne L. Childs.

Please visit Abolitionism and the Arts for more information on this event.