{"id":77282,"date":"2021-09-07T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=77282"},"modified":"2021-09-17T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T20:04:52","slug":"uri-humanities-series-explores-historical-memory-memorials-and-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/uri-humanities-series-explores-historical-memory-memorials-and-commemoration\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Humanities series explores historical memory, memorials and commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Year-long series opens Sept. 29 with author Clint Smith III<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 7, 2021 \u2013 Amid the struggle for racial justice last year in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, more than 90 monuments memorializing Confederate leaders of the Civil War were removed. In several cities, statues of Christopher Columbus were defaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion of monuments and societal memory moves to the 溏心vlog免费B站 campus as the Center for the Humanities<\/a> opens a year-long series exploring society\u2019s collective decisions and dialogue about what to commemorate, a discussion deeply rooted in the social, cultural, and political experience of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMemorials and Commemoration in the U.S<\/a>,\u201d which will include virtual and in-person presentations, will focus on themes of race, ethnicity and sovereignty on the local and national levels. All events are free and open to the public. Registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe question of historical memory has become so politicized. We\u2019ve all become very conscious of that in the context of the controversies over statues of Columbus and Confederate memorials,\u201d said Evelyn Sterne, director of the Center for the Humanities. \u201cOur speaker series looks at the pressing question of how memory is constructed and revised.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series opens Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 5 p.m. <\/strong>with a virtual talk hosted by the Harrington School of Communication and Media<\/a>. Clint Smith III<\/a>, an author, poet and staff writer at The Atlantic, will discuss his No. 1 New York Times bestseller, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America<\/em>, which explores how different sites in the nation reconcile their relationship to the history of slavery. Ammina Kothari, the new director of the Harrington School, will moderate a discussion following Smith\u2019s lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith is also the author of the poetry collection, \u201cCounting Descent,\u201d winner of the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. His essays, poems, and scholarly writings have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Paris Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kent Blansett<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m.,<\/strong> the series continues with a virtual presentation by Kent Blansett<\/a>, the Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History at the University of Kansas, who will discuss \u201cThink Indigenous: Richard Oakes and the Red Power Movement.\u201d Oakes, an Akwesasne Mohawk student leader, was vital to Red Power activism of the 1960s and \u201970s and was a key figure in the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz Island by the organization Indians of All Tribes seeking to reclaim the abandoned federal property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blansett, founder and executive director for the American Indian Digital History Project, spent 18 years researching and writing the first biography to explore the life of Oakes. Published in 2018, A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement<\/em> has garnered national attention with reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Indian Country Today, Washington Post, and NPR\u2019s Latino USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A stone monolith outside the library pays tribute to the Kingston Campus\u2019 history as an ancestral home of the Narragansett Indian Tribe.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, Oct. 16,<\/strong> the series will present an in-person panel discussion and walking tour that looks at Native American history on the Kingston Campus, focusing on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s unique class, \u201cThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Campus: A Walk Through Time<\/a>.\u201d Anthropology professor Kristine Bovy, history professors Catherine DeCesare and Rod Mather and Tomaquag Museum Executive Director Lor\u00e9n Spears will discuss the campus\u2019 long, complicated history as an ancestral home of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, the effects of European colonization, and how that history is memorialized today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis talk is not only a great opportunity to teach people more about the history of the 溏心vlog免费B站 campus,\u201d said Sterne, \u201cbut also to promote the Tomaquag Museum, which will be moving to 溏心vlog免费B站.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The in-person talk starts at 10 a.m. in Room 100 of the Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Science with the 45-minute, optional walking tour beginning at 11 a.m. Participants must follow 溏心vlog免费B站 health guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including wearing masks inside Beaupre 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Kwo Wei Tchen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.,<\/strong> the series\u2019 fall lineup closes with a presentation by John Kwo Wei (Jack) Tchen<\/a>, chair of Public History & Humanities at Rutgers University and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America. Through his discussion, \u201cBefore 1776\u2014Time to Break the Silence,\u201d Tchen will bring together elements of his long career as a historian and public humanities scholar as he links the racial injustices of Black and Indigenous communities with those of people in the Asian community, which were prevalent during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMemorials and Commemoration in the U.S.\u201d will host more presentations during the spring semester. Plans for those events are underway. To register for the fall events or to learn of upcoming talks, please go to the series webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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