John Rhoden Catalogue Symposium

1:30 – 2:10      Photographing Sculpture with catalogue photography team, Sahar Coston-Hardy and Ed DiJoseph  

2:30 – 3:10     The Slave Ship, a gallery talk by Renée Ater, Independent Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor, Brown University

3:30 – 5:00     Catalogue Authors’ Roundtable featuring Kelin Baldridge Smallwood, Processing Archivist, University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Greg Barnhisel, Professor of English, Duquesne University; Katelyn Crawford, The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art; Sylvea Hollis, Associate Professor, Montgomery College; Han McCoy, Rhoden Curatorial Assistant, PAFA; and Brittany Webb, the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, PAFA. 

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5:30 - 6:30     Catalogue Launch Party. Celebrate the beautiful catalogue and purchase your copy! The exhibition and PAFA's shop will be open after museum hours until 6:30. 

6:30 - 7:30     Keynote address by Imani Perry

Imani Perry is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer giving fresh context to African American social conditions and experiences along dimensions of race, gender, and politics. Perry is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a 2023 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Perry’s recent book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (2022) won the National Book Prize for Nonfiction

Imani Perry received a BA (1994) from Yale University, a PhD (2000) from Harvard University, a JD (2000) from Harvard Law School, and an LLM (2002) from Georgetown University Law Center. She was professor of law with Rutgers University School of Law from 2002 to 2009 and was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University from 2009 to 2023. Currently, Perry is a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the Henry A. Morss, Jr., and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies and co-founder of the Black Teacher Archive at Harvard University. Her other publications include the audiobook A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain (2023), Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (2019), and Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip-Hop (2004), and she is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. 

Image:  © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - used with permission. 

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