Welcome history 3 27, arts and history students, you know me. I am professor april masten. We are very fortunate today to have a guest lecturer, president of stony brook university, maurie mcinnis. Id like to tell you a bit about her the title of her lecture as you, conceit, the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevance not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past, but also how the affects the president , 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 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 the enslaved people helped to create this institution. Doctor mcguinness is a renowned scholar and cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial south. The politics of slavery. She is an aw