Nov
3
“Monuments, Memory, and the John Witherspoon Statue”
A panel of scholarly experts will explore memorialization, monuments in American art history, and the university campus as a space and a community.
Rachael DeLue, “Teaching the Witherspoon Statue”
Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art
Faculty in the Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University
Ron McCoy Jr., “Space, Place, and Iconography on Princeton’s Campus”
University Architect, Princeton University
Renée Ater, “American Monuments and American Slavery”
Visiting Professor in Africana Studies, Brown University
Founder of Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past
Louis Nelson, “Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, and Memorialization at UVA”
Vice Provost for Academic Outreach
Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia
Patricia Eunji Kim, “Community-Engaged Response to Historical Monuments”
Assistant Professor of Ancient Art and Culture, NYU
Senior Editor and Curator-At-Large, Monument Lab
Moderated by Beth Lew-Williams,
Chair of the CPUC Committee on Naming
Associate Professor of History, Princeton University
Rachael DeLue, “Teaching the Witherspoon Statue”
Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art
Faculty in the Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University
Ron McCoy Jr., “Space, Place, and Iconography on Princeton’s Campus”
University Architect, Princeton University
Renée Ater, “American Monuments and American Slavery”
Visiting Professor in Africana Studies, Brown University
Founder of Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past
Louis Nelson, “Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, and Memorialization at UVA”
Vice Provost for Academic Outreach
Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia
Patricia Eunji Kim, “Community-Engaged Response to Historical Monuments”
Assistant Professor of Ancient Art and Culture, NYU
Senior Editor and Curator-At-Large, Monument Lab
Moderated by Beth Lew-Williams,
Chair of the CPUC Committee on Naming
Associate Professor of History, Princeton University