Race, Memory, and Memorialization Conference
May 4-5, 2018
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In the wake of Charlottesville communities across the nation are reevaluating memorials and the history that they represent. On the occasion of the Center's fifth Anniversary, the CSSJ will be organizing the conference: Race, Memory and Memorialization. This conference will examine the activism behind the Southern Freedom Movement and critically question the way the Civil Rights Movement has been represented through memorials and exhibitions. The conference will pose questions about the commemoration, history and memory in the present.
For more information about the conference and to see the schedule, please visit www.brown.edu/
Image Credits (left to right): Lt. Francis Meynell, Royal Navy, artist, Slave Deck of the Albatroz, watercolor, 1845. Courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Joseph Holston, After Harriet, acrylic on canvas, 2008. Image courtesy of the artist. Moneta Sleet Jr. (American, 1926–1996), Rosa Parks, Dr. and Mrs. Abernathy, Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. leading marchers into Montgomery, gelatin silver print, 133⁄8 x 103⁄4 in. (34 x 27.3 cm), 1965, printed circa 1970. Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of the Johnson Publishing Company, 426:1991. Courtesy of the Johnson Publishing Company, LLC.
Registration, schedule and speaker information will be available later this spring, but we know you want to make plans now. So here are three action items to help you start getting ready:
