Liza Oliver Keynote Address: An Economy of Sentiment

“An Economy of Sentiment: The Shared Language of Abolitionists and the West India Interest in Late Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture”
Delivered by Liza Oliver, Associate Professor of Art, Wellesley College
Presented at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during the research symposium, Early Modern Global Political Art, October 20-21, 2022.
Featuring emerging scholarship on the art of this period against the backdrop of the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, Krannert Art Museum hosted a symposium on Early Modern Global Political Art.
The symposium investigated visual media that communicated political ideas, arguments, positions, and forms of resistance in the early modern period. It will be hybrid, blending in person presentations with online presentations via zoom to facilitate greater accessibility and international participation.
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Supported by the School of Art & Design Visitors Committee, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures, French and Italian, German Languages and Literatures, History, Spanish and Portuguese, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council agency and by Illinois International Programs through a grant from the Hewlett Foundation.