Virtual Lecture Series focused on the exhibition Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams

Thursdays, March 13–April 10, 2pm

$45 (Members 10% discount)

This lecture series, presented virtually on Zoom, illuminates various aspects of Their Kindred Earth on view at the Florence Griswold Museum through June 22. Topics include an exhibition overview, vernacular photography, stories of the Black experience in Connecticut, and research on enslavement in our state (specifically in Lyme and Old Lyme).

Lecture #1: March 13

Their Kindred Earth: An Overview with Jenny Parsons, Ph.D., Curator of Exhibitions

Lecture #2: March 20

Vernacular Photography and the Documentary Tradition with Christopher B. Steiner, Professor of Art History, Connecticut College

Lecture #3: March 27

Interpreting Absence: Slavery’s Traces in Historic Lyme with Carolyn Wakeman, Historian and catalogue essayist for Their Kindred Earth

Lecture #4: April 3

Learning to See: Connecticut’s Landscape of Captivity with Anne Farrow, Independent Scholar and Researcher

Lecture #5: April 10

Connecticut & Color: Little Known Stories of the Black Experience in Connecticut with John Mills, Historian, Genealogist, President & Founder of the Alex Breanne Corporation

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