Greenberg Speaker Series: Difficult Memories

Syracuse University’s Greenberg House and The Lender Center for Social Justice invite you to this year’s Greenberg Speaker Series, “Difficult Memories”.

Gathering together prominent museum and memorial directors, critical scholars and advocates for a roundtable discussion, “Difficult Memories” seeks to promote dialogue about how we might productively and respectfully engage with our shared past and learn from it. Participants throughout the evening include:
-    Chancellor Kent Syverud, Syracuse University
-    Dr. A.D. Carson, Professor of Hip-Hop at University of Virginia; Artist, “Sleepwalking Vol 1: A Mixtape”
-    Judith Heumann, International Disability Rights Advocate; 2017-2018 Senior Ford Foundation Fellow; Former Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. Department of State
-    Dr. E. Patrick Johnson, Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and Performance Studies at Northwestern University; Author, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South-An Oral History
-    Dr. Ann Millin, Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Center at Stockton University
-    Dr. Ersula Ore, Lincoln Professor of Ethics in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University; Author, Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity
-    W. Richard West, Jr., President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West; Former director of Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

The discussion will be moderated by Kendall Phillips, Co-Director of The Lender Center for Social Justice and Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, and will focus on how to navigate the seemingly inevitable conflicts and controversies arising from remembering past instances of injustice.

http://cc.syr.edu/greenbergspeakerseries2019