ARSC300 Lecture Series: Monuments, Memory, History: Processing War and Global Conflict

Wednesdays 12:40 - 1:35 

Memorial 122

*This lecture series is free and open to the public*

February 7th - Class Introduction - no guest lecture

February 14th - Barksdale Maynard (MALS, UD) "The Delaware Memorial at Gettysburg"

February 21st - Maryna Pallienko (New York University/Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) "Archives as Cultural Heritage and Sites of Memory: Challenges of Preservation during Russia's War against Ukraine"

February 28th -  Ben Stanley (English, UD) "The Cookbook as Memorialization Genre: Apartheid History and District Six Huis Kombuis”

March 6th - Yuanchong Wang (History, UD) "Monuments and Historical Memories in Modern East Asia”

March 13th - Jon Cox (Art and Design, UD)  “PhotoVoice in Slovakia: Memorializing Ukrainians Displaced from the War”

March 20th - Valerie Marlowe (Disaster Research Center, UD) “Cultural Heritage and Quick-Response Collecting in the Post-9/11 Context”

April 3rd - Benjamin Fleury-Steiner (Sociology and Criminal Justice, UD) “The Landscape of Holocaust Memorialization in Poland”

April 10th - Steve Gonzer (Halina Wind Preston Holocaust Education Committee)“Creating and Preserving Delaware’s Garden of the Righteous Gentiles”

April 17th - Travis Timmerman (Philosophy, Seton Hall University) “The Case for Removing Confederate Monuments”

April 24th -  Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin/ Art Conservation, UD) “Cold War Influences: Rescuing Italian Renaissance Art and Cultural Records”

May 1st - Persephone Braham (Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UD) “Erasing the Aztecs: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico”

May 8th - Davy Knittle (English, UD) “Memorializing the Early Era of AIDS: Race, Gender, and Health Inequality from the 1980s to the Present”

May 15th - Class Conclusion - no guest lecture