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ONGOING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

White House of the Confederacy Tours & Special Exhibit on the Lost Cause
\n<\/span>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>White House of the Confederacy, 1201 E. Clay Street
\nDescription:\u00a0<\/strong>The house was home to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, and his family from August, 1861, until the evacuation of Richmond on April 2, 1865.\u00a0 It served as the political and social epicenter of wartime Richmond.<\/p>\n

With the end of the war, the house was headquarters for the U.S. army of occupation and became headquarters for Military District No. 1 during Reconstruction.\u00a0In 1870,\u00a0the U.S. Government gave the house back to the City of Richmond, which used the building for its Central School\u00a0until 1894.\u00a0The Confederate Memorial Literary Society took possession of the property and established the Confederate Museum in the building, which opened its doors to the public in February, 1896.<\/p>\n

In\u00a01976\u00a0a new\u00a0museum\u00a0building was opened and restoration was begun to bring the appearance of the house back to the period of the Civil War.\u00a0The restored house was opened to the public in June, 1988. On September 30, 2018, the museum building closed, to give collections staff time to pack up the collection for its move to the Museum’s new facility at Historic Tredegar. The White House remains open daily for tours.<\/p>\n

The White House currently holds a large number of furnishings and artifacts that were in the\u00a0house\u00a0with\u00a0the Davis family.\u00a0All of the remaining items are original to the period, except for the textiles which are reproductions based on original fabrics or period patterns.<\/p>\n

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Roundtable Event: Afro-Diasporicities: Memory, Resistance, and Healing in the 21st Century
\n<\/strong><\/span>Location: <\/strong>Carole Weinstein International Center Commons
\nDate:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, January 29
\nTime:<\/strong> 5:30-7:30 PM
\nDescription:<\/b> How does the body remember? In what ways is embodied knowledge stored and passed down from one generation to another? How can the arts be used as a vehicle for steering society towards greater justice? Songs, music, and dances have fortified communities of color with ancestral knowledge, embodied resistance, and healing practices. In this hybrid roundtable, partially discussion and partially music and dance interventions, we turn to the term \u201cafro-diasporicities\u201d to bring into sharper focus how the lived experience of black diasporic beings and their movement, music, culture, and spiritual practices, which are rooted in a place yet historically uprooted and\/or rerouted, exist, intersect, and evolve.<\/p>\n

Invited guest speakers and practitioners<\/b>:<\/b>
\nKevin LaMarr Jones, Claves Unidos
\nAlex LaSalle, with Julia Guti\u00e9rrez and Mateo Gonz\u00e1lez, Redobles de Cultura
\nMK Abadoo, Department of Dance and Choreography, Virginia Commonwealth University
\nFree Egunfemi Bangura, Untold RVA
\nLauranette Lee, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond<\/p>\n

Moderators<\/b>:<\/b>
\nAlicia D\u00edaz and Patricia Herrera, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Richmond<\/p>\n

Event is free and open to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Let’s Talk: Lost Cause<\/strong><\/span>
\nLocation:<\/strong> White House of the Confederacy
\nDate:<\/strong> Thursday, February 6
\nTime:<\/strong> 6-7:30 PM
\nDescription:<\/strong>\u00a0The Lost Cause shaped how generations of people have both remembered history and understood their present lives, but its vision of the past isn’t accurate. Join a small group conversation that explores the new exhibit, House of the Lost Cause, and uncovers how the Lost Cause has impacted you and the lives of others. Featuring Caroline Janney, Ph.D. (University of Virginia). Space is limited, registration strongly encouraged.
\nRSVP here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Contested Ground: Memory, Monuments & Power<\/strong><\/span>
\nLocation:<\/strong> Brown-Alley Room
\nDate:<\/strong> Wednesday, February 12
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>12-1:15 PM
\nDescription:<\/strong> This moderated discussion will include a roundtable on research by Jannette Amaral-Rodriguez (LALIS), Elizabeth Baughan (Classical Studies), Erin Holloway Palmer (Independent Editor), and Will Wasta Werner (Classical Studies and History).<\/p>\n

Moderated by: Rob Nelson (Digital Scholarship Lab)<\/p>\n

Pizza and drinks provided.<\/p>\n

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Burial Ground Research Discussion
\n<\/strong><\/span>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Whitehurst Living Room
\nDate:<\/strong> Thursday, February 20
\nTime:<\/strong> 9 AM
\nDescription:<\/strong>\u00a0The Burial Ground Memorialization Committee invites faculty, staff, and students to hear about and discuss the recently released research by Dr. Lauranett Lee and Shelby Driskill into the history of the land that is now the University’s campus, including the findings about the enslaved burial ground on the land. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session and the conversation will help inform the work of the burial ground memorialization committee that Dr. Crutcher has charged to work this semester. An opportunity to visit the burial ground site will follow the discussion.<\/p>\n

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The Jim Crow Cigarette from Richmond to China: An Intimate History
\nLocation: <\/strong>International Center Commons
\nDate: <\/strong>Thursday, February 27
\nTime: <\/strong>4:30 – 5:30 PM
\nDescription:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The global cigarette of the twentieth century had its beginning in Richmond at the factories of Lewis Ginter and John Pope, made of bright leaf tobacco grown in Virginia and North Carolina. Soon this cigarette, developed in tandem with Jim Crow segregation, circulated around the world, including to China where the British American Tobacco Company built a thriving industry. This talk tells the story of how Ginter marketed the bright leaf cigarette first in gentlemen\u2019s clubs in London, and how this cigarette soon came to dominate a global industry. In the process, Jim Crow segregation also inflected global capitalism.<\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Nan Enstad,\u00a0Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the author of Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism.<\/p>\n

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Walls, Borders, and Partitions in Global Perspective<\/strong>
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/strong>University of Richmond, Richmond Room
\nDate:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, February 28
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>9 AM – 4 PM (see below for session times)
\nDescription:\u00a0<\/strong>The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent reunification of Germany were met with a mixture of euphoria, anxiety, and hope, inspiring a desire for an end to walls and militarized borders around the world. In retrospect, we were closer to a world without border walls in 1989 than we are today. In 1989 only 15 countries had border walls. As of November 2017, however, over 70 walls separated nations and states\u201450 of which were constructed following September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

Examples of contemporary border walls include not only the increasingly tense border between the United States and Mexico (930 km), but also Spain and Morocco (19 km) and Israel and the West Bank (708 km).\u00a0 In many cases, these walls have destroyed more lives than the Berlin Wall, promoting human suffering by intensifying socio-economic inequality, restricting access to resources and social services, and fostering a cycle of division, mistrust, violence, and fatalities.<\/p>\n

This conference explores the reasons for the proliferation of walls and their impacts on migration, citizenship, and possibilities for peace as well as their role in reconfiguring border landscapes and communities.<\/p>\n

9:15 – 10:30 am | Walls and their Discontents: Migration, Peace, and the Politics of Division<\/h4>\n

Introduction<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Miguel D\u00edaz-Barriga<\/a>, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Richmond\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBorder Wall Proliferation and Circumvention Strategies\u201d<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. \u00c9lisabeth Vallet<\/a>, Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, University of Quebec-Montreal<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Post-conflict Promise of Peace? Enduring Peace Walls and their Impact on Lived Experience and Memory of \u2018the Troubles\u2019 in Contemporary Northern Ireland\u201d<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Laura McAtackney<\/a>, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University<\/p>\n

Moderator<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Kathrin Bower<\/a>, Professor of\u00a0German Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences, University of Richmond<\/p>\n

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10:45 – 12:00 pm | Walls, Colonialism, and the Politics of Fragmentation<\/h4>\n

Introduction<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Miguel D\u00edaz-Barriga<\/a>, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Richmond<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Violence of Israel\u2019s Separation Wall: An Ethnography through Multiple Analytics\u201d<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Amahl Bishara<\/a>, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Affiliate Faculty, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism & Diaspora, Tufts University<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People.\u201d<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Carlos V\u00e9lez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/a>, Regents\u2019 Professor, School of Transborder Studies and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization, Arizona State University<\/p>\n

Moderator<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Margaret Dorsey<\/a>, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Richmond<\/p>\n

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1:45 – 3:00 pm | Keynote<\/h4>\n

Introduction<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Katrina Nousek<\/a>, Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Richmond<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking the Iron Curtain: The Violence of Germany\u2019s Wall\u201d<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Edith Sheffer<\/a>, Senior Fellow at University of California Berkeley\u2019s Institute for European Studies<\/p>\n

Moderator<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr. Michelle Kahn<\/a>, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Richmond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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