Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation is a series of public programs in which historians, art historians, community activists, and artists will discuss the ongoing reevaluation of public monuments and memorials across the country and in New York City.

 

Monuments as: History | Art | Power
 

 

Wednesday, June 13th, 6-8PM
Martin Segal Theatre
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave. (34th St)

 

Harriet Senie, Professor of Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY
Deirdre Cooper Owens, Assistant Professor of History, Queens College, CUNY
Marina Ortiz, Founder and President, East Harlem Preservation 
Francheska Alcantara, Community-based artist
Moderator: Arinn Amer, Ph.D. Program in History, Graduate Center, CUNY

The series is sponsored by:
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
The Gotham Center for New York City History
CUNY Public History Collective

 

Series is supported with funds from Humanities New York and the National Endowment for the Humanities.