Karo Moret Miranda | Entanglements and aesthetic exercises of maroonage between the Black Atlantic and the Black Pacific

Karo Moret-Miranda is an Afro-Cuban historian, early research academic, and Lecturer in History at the Australian National University, specialising in African studies and African diaspora studies with a focus on race, religion, and gender issues. She is also interested in the influence and borrowings of African and Afro-Caribbean culture on Western thought and culture, and vice versa. Karo now works on the change generated by the slave trade and slavery in accommodation of gender and religions in the Caribbean and Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective. The research that she carries out within medieval studies is focused on the performativity of the body, with special attention to the diversity of bodies, ethnicities, deformities and monsters. She is interested in establishing conversations between text and image about the body, detecting the synaesthesia between how the body is represented and how it is narrated/called/described.

In this seminar, Karo will trace the intricate journey of the racialised feminine as it has traversed scenes of feminine spiritual connection with divine and contemporary manifestations of resilience etched in physical and cultural landscapes, including ancestral knowledges. In her academic and artistic endeavours, Karo is deeply committed to challenging the legacies of colonial norms and seeks to incorporate 'maroonage' not simply as an act of escape, but as a powerful framework to embody the agency of racially marginalised individuals within oppressive systems

This event will be held both on-campus and online via Zoom (a link to the online stream will be sent to registered attendees).


The School of Art & Design Seminar series will continue weekly on Tuesdays from 1-2pm, between 13 February and 14 May 2024. 
To see information about upcoming speakers and to register to attend please follow this link https://rb.gy/v923bn
The School of Art & Design Seminar Series is co-convened by Dr Alex Burchmore, Alia Parker, and Elisa Crossing.