Welcome, welcome, history 327, arts history students. You know me. I am professor april. We are here to have a guest lecture, president of stony brook university, laurie mcinnis. I would like to tell you a little about her. The title of dr. Mcguinnesss lecture is the shadow of slavery, and public life. This is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as, a window into the past, but also how they, it is in james baldwin. And that is nearly to the past and that is what they do the lecture itself was inspired by students in virginia. How the labor of enslaved people help to create that institution doctor mcguinness is the cultural historian and particularly the politics she is an awardwinning author, coauthor, and editor of six books slaves a winning sale, abolitionist art, in the american slave trade. And, educated in tyranny, slavery at jeffersons university, for which she won the charles c eldritch books prize from the smithsonian american art museum. Doctor
To our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as, a window into the past, but, it is in james baldwin. And that is nearly to the past and that is what they do the lecture itself was inspired by students in virginia. How the labor of enslaved people help to create that institution doctor mcguinness is the cultural historian and particularly the politics she is an awardwinning author, coauthor, and editor of six books slaves a winning sale, abolitionist art, in the american slave trade. And, educated in tyranny, and jeffersons university, for which he won the charles c l drench books prize from the smithsonian american art museum. Doctor mcinnis, receiving her b. A. At the university of virginia and, attended yale university, where she earned a ph. D. In art history. She is both an academic, and a public scholar. She is a lecturer, adviser, a curator at numerous art museums, and of course, the sixth president of stony brook university. This mantra to steve, president mcinnis. Good m
Me. I am professor april. We are here to have a guest lecture, president of stony brook university, laurie mcinnis. I would like to tell you a little about her. The title of dr. Mcguinnesss lecture is the shadow of slavery in public life. This is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as, a window into the past, but, it is in james baldwin. And that is nearly to the past and that is what they do the lecture itself was inspired by students in virginia. How the labor of enslaved people help to create that institution doctor mcguinness is the cultural historian and particularly the politics she is an awardwinning author, coauthor, and editor of six books slaves waiting for sale, abolitionist art, in the american slave trade. And, educated in tyranny, slavery at Thomas Jeffersons university, for which he won the charles c l drench books prize from the smithsonian american art museum. Doctor mcguinness, receiving her b. A. At the university of virginia and, att
Into the past, but, it is in james baldwin. And that is nearly to the past and that is what they do the lecture itself was inspired by students in virginia. How the labor of enslaved people help to create that institution doctor mcguinness is the cultural historian and particularly the politics she is an awardwinning author, coauthor, and editor of six books slaves a winning sale, abolitionist art, in the american slave trade. And, educated in tyranny, and jeffersons university, for which he won the charles c l drench books prize from the smithsonian american art museum. Doctor mcinnis, receiving her b. A. At the university of virginia and, attended yale university, where she earned a ph. D. In art history. She is both an academic, and a public scholar. She is a lecturer, adviser, a curator at numerous art museums, and of course, the sixth president of stony brook university. This mantra to steve, president mcinnis. Good morning. Thank you so much professor for letting me have the oppo
To our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. Shes an awardwinning author coauthor and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at Thomas Jeffersons university. Which for which she won . The she was awarded the Chelsea Eldridge book prize from the Smithsonian A