Date/Time
Date(s) - September 12, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location
Updike Farmstead
354 Quaker Road
Princeton

Memory and History:
The Meaning and Future of Monuments in the Aftermath of Charlottesville

Join three distinguished scholars from Princeton University in a panel discussion, as they reflect on the events in Charlottesville and recent controversies surrounding monuments in the American cityscape. The conversation will touch on the tensions between history and memory, strategies for interpreting and memorializing challenging periods of American history, and what the future of controversial monuments could and should be in the United States. The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

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Panelists will include: Prof. Martha Sandweiss (Princeton University, History), Prof. Wallace Best (Princeton University, Religion, African American Studies, History, Gender and Sexuality Studies), and Dr. Juliana Ochs Dweck (Princeton University Art Museum).

Martha Sandweiss is a historian of the United States, with particular interests in the history of the American West, visual culture, and public history. She received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University and began her career as a photography curator at the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, TX. She later taught American Studies and History at Amherst College for twenty years before joining the Princeton faculty in 2009. At Princeton, Sandweiss teaches courses on the history of the American West, narrative writing, and public history. She currently heads a research project on Princeton and Slavery. She serves as faculty adviser to graduate student groups working in the fields of public history and Native American Studies. The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Rockefeller Foundation, she consults widely on matters related to history education and the use of visual images for historical research and writing.

Wallace Best specializes in 19th and 20th century African American religious history. His research and teaching focus on the areas of African American religion, religion and literature, Pentecostalism, and Womanist theology. He has held fellowships at Princeton’s Center for the Study of Religion and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Northwestern University. Prof. Best served as the Chair of the History Working Group of the Campus Iconography Committee, a group of faculty, staff, and students focused on identifying, facilitating, and supporting opportunities for diversifying art and iconography across Princeton’s campus, to make the campus feel more welcoming to an increasingly diverse community.

Juliana Ochs Dweck serves as the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Engagement at the Princeton University Art Museum, where she develops strategies for collections interpretation; creates cross-disciplinary installations; and integrates the collections into the university curriculum. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Yale University (2002) and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2007). Dweck joined the Museum staff in 2010 as the Manager of Interpretation and became the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow for Collections Engagement in 2011. Previously, she worked for the National Museum of American Jewish History, the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the Jewish Museum of Maryland; and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History.

 

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