Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture with Caitlin Meehye Beach
Thursday, March 21, 4 p.m. 

Join art historian Caitlin Meehye Beach in person or online for her lecture “Sculpted Bodies and the Matter of Racial Capitalism.” She is the 2023 recipient of the Eldredge Prize, which annually recognizes originality and thoroughness of research and excellence in writing, for her book Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery. Beach explores the intersections between the economic wealth generated by enslavement and the materials, production and circulation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sculpture. She also highlights the artists’ role in reproducing anti-Blackness even as they professed anti-slavery politics. In her lecture, Beach will use her book as a starting point to discuss sculpture's relationship to ideas about race and the human body in nineteenth-century art and material culture.

Beach is an assistant professor of art history, affiliated faculty in African American Studies at Fordham University, and co-director of Fordham’s Asian American studies program.  

The lecture will be held in person and online; registration is required.  

Know Before You Go

In-Person Attendees
The auditorium doors will close ten minutes after the published start time for the program, following introductory remarks. Latecomers arriving after this grace period will be admitted at the discretion of staff.

Virtual Attendees
Online participants must be subscribed to SAAM’s YouTube channel 24 hours in advance to participate in the chat and ask a question that may be answered live by the speaker during the program.

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