“Between Translation and Conversion: Missionary Images of Kongo and Angola”
Lecture on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM at African American Studies 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline, MA
Cécile Fromont is an assistant professor of Art History at the University of Chicago specializing in the arts, religion, and visual culture of the early modern southern Atlantic with a special focus on Kongo, Angola, and Brazil between the 16th and 19th century. Her first book, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo will be published in the Fall of 2014.