UPDATE: NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE “Bulletproofing America’s Public Space: Race, Remembrance, and Emmett Till,” a Lecture by Mabel O. Wilson

UPDATE: RECORDED LECTURE NOW ONLINE FROM COOPER UNION

From The Cooper Union: Mabel O. Wilson's free, public online lecture entitled, "Bulletproofing America's Public Space: Race, Remembrance, and Emmett Till" will be introduced and moderated by Dean Nader Tehrani.

Compelling architectural and urban designs like the recent Memorial to Peace and Justice by MASS Design Group have been erected to aid the public in remembering the historic and geographic scope of America’s legacy of racial violence. As architects, planners, urbanists, and historians how do we commemorate America’s fraught history when recent protests by the white nationalist group Unite the Right at historic sites like the University of Virginia, or the need to bulletproof a historical marker at an important site of the Civil Rights struggle tells us that violence still simmers and erupts in the nation's public spaces? 

(the video of Mabel O. Wilson's address can be viewed here)

For this year’s Eleanore Pettersen Lecture, Cooper Union has invited the incisive architectural historian Mabel O. Wilson to discuss the fraught subject of how to commemorate histories of racial violence in the US. Focusing on recent architectural designs like the “Memorial to Peace and Justice” in Montgomery, Alabama, her lecture will consider the need to physically and publicly remember heinous acts throughout this country’s history. An esteemed professor of architecture at Columbia University, Wilson will consider the complicated nature of memorialization amid attacks on tributes to slain figures like Emmett Till and the resurgence of vociferous white nationalist groups like Unite the Right, which in 2017 organized a violent and hateful protest at the University of Virginia.

When: April 29, 6:30–8:30pm
Where: Zoom

More info here.