Memory institutions include museums, archives, memorials, historic sites, as well as community centers, churches, murals, cemeteries, and even barbershops. But the practice of cultural memory also includes the people who work in these spaces, each of whom carry, interpret, and transmit memory in personal, professional, and communal contexts. Join Lance Wheeler, Vice President of Learning & Engagement at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, for a conversation about the challenges that organizations and individuals alike face in spaces devoted to remembering and commemoration the Holocaust, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and other difficult histories.
This event is part of Queensborough Community College’s (QCC) Unseen Threads initiative, a partnership between the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and QCC’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center. It is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University; the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center in White Plains; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University; the Holocaust Education & Resource Center at Kean University; and the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University.
**To attend in person: The event is free and open to all, but registration ahead of time is required and visitors must show ID upon entering the campus at Queensborough Community College (QCC). For directions to QCC’s campus, please visit https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/about/index.html#gettingHere.
**This event will take place in the Oakland Building Dining Hall. For a map of QCC's campus, please visit https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/map/index.html.
