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


