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Contested Public Memories Conference
Syracuse University, NY
October 6-8, 2005

BIll Morrison & Michael Gordon Weem-memory

Keynote:

  • James Loewen, "Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America"

Plenary Panels:

  • Urvashi Butulia, "A Sense of the Past: Memory, History and the partition of India."
  • Vera Schwarcz, "Sorting Threads, Arranging Words: Memory on the Periphery of Public Narratives."
  • Carrie Mae Weems, "Public and Private Forms of Memory."
  • John Lucaites and Robert Hariman, "Remembering The Civil Rights Movement: Figuring Citizenship in a Visual Democracy."

Special Events:

  • Exhibition: "Forms of Memory," Carrie Mae Weems, Lowe Art Gallery
  • Performance: The Michael Gordon Band: "Light is Calling"

Full Conference Schedule [PDF]

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