In Celebration of Saidiya Hartman's "Scenes of Subjection: Slavery, Terror and Self-Making in 19th Century America"

Presented in co-sponsorship Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

**In Discussion**

• Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
• Torkwase Dyson,Artist & Scholar
• Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
• Sarah Haley, Columbia University
• Cameron Rowland, Artist & Scholar
• Alex Weheliye, NorthWestern University

In Scenes of Subjection, Saidiya Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.

Recording done by GSAPP Audiovisual

Fall Semester Events Co-Sponsors

• Center or the Study of Ethnicity & Race-Columbia University
• Department of Art History & Archaeology -Columbia University
• Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation- Columbia University
• Institute for Comparative Literature & Society-Columbia University
• Institute for the Study of Sexuality & Gender-Columbia University
• The School of the Arts-Colombia University