Workshop Two: Memorialization & Representations of Slavery and Unfreedom
Date: Apr. 11 - Apr. 12, 2024
Location: Seminar Room 222 in Maxwell Hall at the Gayle Karch Cook Center
This two-day event will ask participants to consider how the history of slavery and unfreedom is represented and memorialized in European, American, African and Asian settings, including through the creation and removal of public monuments and statues. Participants will reflect on what this history reveals or occludes about how states and their people have reckoned with painful histories, as well as the present-day legacies of this history in contemporary public discourse and social protests centered around the removal of statutes and monuments. It thus aims to bring scholars and practitioners from these areas together to share ideas and perspectives on racial justice, equity, and violence. The workshop will be centered around discussions of pre-circulated papers.
