Africans in Renaissance Europe: History and Legacy. (A discussion panel)

“The Three Mulattoes of Esmereldas” (1599) is one of the works in “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe," at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.Credit...Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
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Reading Room (303), Zell Miller Learning Center, 3rd floor
Join us for a discussion panel on "Africans in Renaissance Europe: History and Legacy." 
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments.
 
With special guests:
 
Chair: John Morrow, Jr., UGA, History Emeritus

   Jareema Hylton, Emory University, English

      "Renaissance Rivalry and Race: John Fletcher's England and Spain in the early Caribbean"

   Elizabeth Wright, UGA, Romance Languages,

      "Black Lives Across Two Renaissances: From Golden Age Spain to 1920s Harlem"

   Sujata Iyengar, UGA, English,

      "The English Renaissance and the Black Diaspora, from John Blanke to Bishop Holsey"  

With commenting by: Ben Ehlers, UGA, History
Event flyer for panel "Africans in Renaissance Europe" at MLC 303, 12:30pm March 14 (295.98 KB)

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