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DESCRIPTION:Slavery North invites you to the final talk in our series of ei
 ght Fellow Talks in Spring 2026. Visual artist Johnny Floyd shares his res
 earch-creation reimagining Moby-Dick by Herman Melville as a narrative fra
 mework for examining slavery\, whiteness\, and the maritime infrastructure
 s in New England. \n\n \n\nThis hybrid talk is open to students\, faculty\
 , staff\, and members of the public.\n\n \n\nDate/Time: Thursday\, May 7\,
  2026\, 10-11AM (EDT)\n\n \n\nLocation: Room 301\, Herter Hall\, 161 Presi
 dents Drive\, UMass Amherst\, Amherst\, MA 01003\n\n \n\nOnline via Zoom:\
 nhttps://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/92766927065\n\nMeeting ID: 927 6692 7065\
 n\n \n\nSpeaker: Johnny Floyd\, Artist-in-Residence Fellow\, Spring 2026\n
 \n \n\nModerator: Dr. Martha McNamara\, Associate Professor of Public Hist
 ory & Associate Director Slavery North\n\n \n\nLecture: Leviathan!\; or\, 
 Charting the White Whale: Reimagining Moby-Dick through Maritime Histories
  of Northern Slavery\n\n \n\nLecture abstract: Using Herman Melville’s M
 oby-Dick as a site of narrative reconstruction\, Johnny will discuss art-m
 aking as a problem-solving mechanism for bridging gaps and resolving omiss
 ions in the historical record of the Transatlantic Slave Trade along the n
 orthern Atlantic coast.\n\n \n\nBio: Johnny Floyd is a self-taught visual 
 artist whose practice examines how histories of slavery and racial ideolog
 y are constructed\, maintained\, and obscured. Grounded in the Black exper
 ience in the United States\, his work engages archival research\, vernacul
 ar photography\, and material processes such as painting\, sewing\, and sc
 ulptural construction to interrogate the infrastructures\, both physical a
 nd conceptual\, that shaped racial capitalism in the Northeast and beyond.
  Through repetition\, fragmentation\, and speculative gesture\, Floyd trea
 ts the archive not as a fixed record\, but as a site of rupture and respon
 sibility. His work proposes art making as a form of historical care\, one 
 that confronts inherited narratives while opening space for alternative fo
 rms of memory\, accountability\, and repair. His work has been exhibited n
 ationally and internationally and is held in public and private collection
 s.
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LOCATION:Herter Hall\, 301
SUMMARY:Johnny Floyd Fellow Talk 
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CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk/Reading
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