For the fifth event of the "Intermediality" Graduate Research Seminars, organised by the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, Dr. Zirwat Chowdhury (UCLA) & Daria de Beauvais (Palais de Tokyo) will be joining us to discuss the themes of intermediality and display.

Dr. Zirwat Chowdhury will be discussing her involvement with the collaborative digital timeline ‘Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe’, a crowdsourced timeline chronicling the representation and regulation of black bodies in Europe, circa 1600-1800. This digital tool for teaching and research is the product of international collaborative effort that took place between June and September 2020. The timeline can be viewed here.

Chowdhury is an assistant professor in 18th- and 19th-century European art at UCLA, whose research and teaching explore the interconnected histories and historiographies of art and visual culture in Britain, France, and South Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Daria de Beauvais is Senior Curator at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris). There, she recently co-curated the collective exhibitions "Antibodies" (2020) and "Future, Former, Fugitive" (2019). With Palais de Tokyo’s curatorial team she was in charge of the 15th Lyon Biennale, "Where Water Comes Together with Other Water" (2019). Amongst her last monographic exhibitions are: "Angelica Mesiti – When Doing is Saying" (2019), "Laure Prouvost – Ring, Sing and Drink for Trespassing" (2018), "Carte Blanche to Camille Henrot – Days are Dogs" (2017) and "Mika Rottenberg" (2016).

She has previously worked with institutions and galleries worldwide, such as the Venice Biennale; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Museum of Modern Art, New york; Independent Curators International, New York; Galerie Zlotowski, Paris; Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome; Lili Marleen , New York. She is also a freelance curator (Paris, Rotterdam, and Chicago). She regularly sits on various committees and juries, writes for several magazines and publications, and teaches at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Image credits: Screenshot from “Blackness, Immobility & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800) – A Collaborative Timeline,” Journal18 (September 2020), https://www.journal18.org/5175; Portrait of Daria de Beauvais © François Bouchon.

The series is convened by Anneke de Bont (ad961@cam.ac.uk), Elisabetta Garletti (esg36@cam.ac.uk) and Stella Wisgrill (sw728@cam.ac.uk).