BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250802T182219EDT-8796oPDtcb@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250802T222219Z DESCRIPTION:We’re happy to invite you to the third event in this year’s AHC S Student Speaker Series\, featuring two presenters: Rach Klein and Chris Gismondi\, both PhD students of Art History at ɬ﷬. Rach will be presen ting on 'The Many Lives of David Drake's Earthenware: Engraved Poetry in 1 9th-century Edgefield\,' while Chris's talk asks 'How did we get here? Whi teness in British-North American Slavery and Colonialism.'\n\nPlease join us next week on Tuesday\, March 2nd at 4PM EST (on Zoom) for two great pre sentations and\, afterwards\, a Q&A period––we look forward to your partic ipation!\n\nZoom link coming shortly.\n\n—\n\nRach Klein\, The Many Lives of David Drake's Earthenware: Engraved Poetry in 19th-century Edgefield\n \nBetween 1820 and 1890\, the Edgefield region of South Carolina\, known i nformally as “Pottersville” or “Landrumsville\,” produced thousands of ear thenware pots\, jugs\, and tankards. Ranging in size from a few ounces to 40 gallons\, these highly functional vessels were created primarily for us e on plantations across the Southern States to store salted meat\, syrups and other preserves. These remarkable vessels were largely created by ensl aved African-born and African American artisans. Among the many unnamed cr eators and labourers\, David Drake stands out as an anomaly. A literate tu rner\, Drake engraved poetic couplets upon the pottery he created\, rangin g in themes from the romantic to the religious. This written documentation provides rare and precious insight into the firsthand perspective of an e nslaved labourer working in the 19th century\, when literacy laws forbiddi ng slaves from writing and reading were strict and abundant. Situated thro ugh a material analysis\, my project looks at the lifecycle of Edgefield v essels\, beginning with the gathering of clay from South Carolina’s minera l-rich waterways\, leading through the many steps of transformation from r aw materials into functional pottery\, and ending with the inevitable swee ping of broken shards. Each of these stages involves the labour and creati vity of enslaved peoples\, unnamed and unattributed\, but whose lives and legacies are made material within the incidental smudges of glaze and fing erprints on clay––and\, in the case of Drake\, embedded in poetic verse.\n \nChris Gismondi\, How did we get here? Whiteness in British-North America n Slavery and Colonialism\n\nAnti-racism issues are at the forefront of co ntemporary politics\, life\, and consumer culture. But the root causes of these attitudes stem from white supremacy fabricated during the period of transatlantic slavery and settler-colonialism. I analyze how this identity was constructed\, policed\, and depicted in British-North America to prov ide context for today’s anti-racism struggles. I analyze media like print culture\, portraiture\, and historical constructions like film to understa nd how whiteness operated\, was disseminated\, and is remembered. Within C anadian art history\, cultural objects like slave-owners' portraits have r emained largely untouched. Additionally\, I follow scholars in positioning that “fugitive” or runaway slave advertisements are a form of portraiture for the enslaved\, but also communicate much more about their authors. I am dedicated to analyzing both the systems of slavery and colonialism in t andem with unpacking the historical notions of whiteness. I blend portrait s of slave owners with archival runaway slave advertisements from the Uppe r Canada Gazette\, Philadelphia Gazette\, and Kingston Gazette. British No rth American spaces like Upper Canada\, Montreal\, New York\, and Philadel phia are all northern and temperate spaces largely removed from the imagin ary of transatlantic slavery but that were also concurrently frontiers for settler colonialism.\n DTSTART:20210302T210000Z DTEND:20210302T223000Z SUMMARY:AHCS Student Speaker Series #3 – Rach Klein & Chris Gismondi URL:/ahcs/channels/event/ahcs-student-speaker-series-3 -rach-klein-chris-gismondi-329139 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR