{"id":99907,"date":"2025-01-28T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=99907"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:40:10","slug":"uris-humanities-lecture-series-expands-discussion-on-sustaining-democracy-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/uris-humanities-lecture-series-expands-discussion-on-sustaining-democracy-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s humanities lecture series expands discussion on \u2018Sustaining Democracy\u2019 this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Jan. 28, 2025 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for the Humanities will continue its year-long look at \u201cSustaining Democracy\u201d<\/a> this spring through the groundbreaking work of four guest speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a time of wide concern about challenges to democracy, the series showcases the vital role the arts and humanities play in interpreting and communicating threats to democracy and offering paths to democratic engagement. The spring speakers will focus on such issues confronting democracy as racism, censorship and the meaning of freedom. The lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is requested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are excited to bring in four distinguished speakers whose work presents four very different perspectives on how the arts and humanities help sustain democracy and civic engagement,\u201d said Evelyn Sterne, associate professor of history and director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for the Humanities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eric Gottesman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The spring lectures open Thursday, Feb. 13,<\/strong> with artist Eric Gottesman, the William Wilson Corcoran Visiting Professor of Community Engagement at George Washington University. Gottesman\u2019s presentation will focus on \u201cWhere Can We Go From Here?\u201d<\/a> at 5 p.m. in the Carothers Library\u2019s Galanti Lounge. The lecture will also be livestreamed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gottesman\u2019s work explores issues such as nationalism, migration, structural violence, history and intimate relations, questioning accepted ideas of power and fostering critical self-reflection and creative expression. In his talk, he will discuss his collaborative work over the last 25 years, which has brought together photography, art, teaching and civic action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow and Creative Capital and Aaron Siskind Foundation artist, he is the co-founder of For Freedoms<\/a>, an artists\u2019 collective that uses art as a catalyst for civic engagement and direction action, Sterne said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really excited about his visit as he will discuss the ways in which the arts help to promote democracy and civic engagement,\u201d said Sterne. \u201cHe is a distinguished artist and teacher, and his visit should be a fantastic opportunity for the arts community \u2013 at 溏心vlog免费B站 and beyond \u2013 to think about the role their work can play in engaging with and sustaining democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shannon King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On Thursday, Feb. 27,<\/strong> historian Shannon King will discuss \u201cThe Politics of Safety: The Black Freedom Struggle,\u201d<\/a> at 5 p.m. in the Galanti Lounge. Focusing on research from his 2024 book, \u201cThe Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia\u2019s New York,\u201d King will explore Black resistance to racial violence outside the South from the Great Depression to the 1990s and offer alternative ways to understand and teach African American history and Black social movements in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A professor of history at Fairfield University, King is also the author of the widely acclaimed book \u201cWhose Harlem Is This, Anyway?\u201d His work has appeared in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Urban History, and Reviews in American History. His essays have appeared in \u201cUnderstanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement,\u201d \u201cThe Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North,\u201d and \u201cEscape from New York!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Emily Drabinski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Librarian and academic Emily Drabinski will provide insight into another important issue confronting democracy as she discusses attempts to censor and suppress stories and histories of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC people. Her talk, \u201cLibraries at the End of the World,\u201d<\/a> takes place Wednesday, March 19,<\/strong> at 4 p.m. in the Galanti Lounge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA healthy democracy depends on the free flow of ideas,\u201d said Sterne, \u201cand Drabinski\u2019s talk will discuss how censorship threatens that exchange of information and how libraries stand at the center of the fight as they respond to these threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drabinski, a professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the City University of New York, is a past president of the American Library Association and edits the book series Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jefferson Cowie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The humanities center\u2019s series closes with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie, whose work on labor, race and American democracy has been widely celebrated. His talk, \u201cFreedom and Democracy,\u201d<\/a> will be Thursday, April 3,<\/strong> at 4 p.m. in the Hope Room of the Higgins Welcome Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cowie won the Pulitzer in history for his most recent book, \u201cFreedom\u2019s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power,\u201d which explores threats to democracy by examining the history of white resistance to federal power that has promoted a view of freedom as the freedom to oppress others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlthough Cowie\u2019s book is based on the history of one county in Alabama, his work holds much broader implications for understanding conflicting notions of freedom,\u201d Sterne said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A noted academic, he served as the first House Professor and Dean of William Keeton House at Cornell University and is the James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of such award-winning books as \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class,\u201d and \u201cCapital Moves: RCA\u2019s Seventy Year Quest for Cheap Labor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cowie\u2019s presentation will coincide with the 溏心vlog免费B站 center\u2019s annual spring humanities festival, which will include the presentation of the humanities achievement awards to an undergraduate and graduate student who have made strong contributions to the field of the humanities and 溏心vlog免费B站, and have shown promise in a humanities-related career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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