The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath
An NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers
July 10-21, 2023
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, New York
The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center will host a National Endowment for the Humanities institute in Summer 2023 for 25 college and university teachers to study the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. This sixth iteration of the institute will focus on the era’s array of visual media—including the fine arts, ephemera, photography, cartoons, maps, and monuments—to examine how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped views on both sides of and before and after the conflict. The institute will take place in-person. Institute members will participate in seminars led by noted historians, art historians, and archivists, and take part in hands-on sessions in museums and archives. A team of three institute faculty that represents the range of work in the field will introduce participants to the rich body of new scholarship that addresses or incorporates Civil War and postwar visual culture, conduct individual conferences to do further research, and help them to use visual evidence to enhance their scholarship and teaching.
Faculty: Louise Bernard, Michele Bogart, Joshua Brown, Sarah Burns, Gregory Downs, Aston Gonzalez, Matthew Fox-Amato, Hilary N. Green, Lauren Hewes, Dominique Jean-Louis, Turkiya Lowe, Amy Mooney, Susan Schulten, Scott Manning Stevens, Donna Thompson Ray, and Heather Andrea Williams.
•ABOUT THE INSTITUTE•
APPLICATION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS
Application deadline: March 3, 2023
Notification date: April 3, 2023
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