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you know me. i m professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of stony brook university maury mcginnis. i d like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. mcginnis s lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. this topic is relevant not only 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 wasn t 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 slaver ....
thanks for the introduction chrissy. it s definitely an interesting being on the other side of this. i m excited to do my first lecture here at the museum since joining the team. so as many of you guys have figured out this is about martha gellhorn, we re gonna talk a little about hemingway as well because you can t talk about martha gellhorn in world war two without talking about the infamous ernest hemingway. and so one of the things that you know, i do want you guys to keep in mind. is that like this whole perception of martha? you know, how did she get to where she was where she did become a famous wartime correspondent. was it based off of her work her reporting in advance, or was it based off of her connections to hemingway? now thinking about wartime correspondence. i do want to kind of fast forward a little bit to look at some more modern wartime correspondence now when i think a female wartime correspondence i go back to my youth. i know that s giving away my a ....
thanks for the introduction chrissy. it s definitely an interesting being on the other side of this. i m excited to do my first lecture here at the museum since joining the team. so as many of you guys have figured out this is about martha gellhorn, we re gonna talk a little about hemingway as well because you can t talk about martha gellhorn in world war two without talking about the infamous ernest hemingway. and so one of the things that you know, i do want you guys to keep in mind. is that like this whole perception of martha? you know, how did she get to where she was where she did become a famous wartime correspondent. was it based off of her work her reporting in advance, or was it based off of her connections to hemingway? now thinking about wartime correspondence. i do want to kind of fast forward a little bit to look at some more modern wartime correspondence now when i think a female wartime correspondence i go back to my youth. i know that s giving away my a ....
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 wasn t 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. she s an award-winning author co-author 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 jefferson s university. which for which she won? the she was awarded the chelsea eldridge book prize from the smithsonian american art m ....
thanks so much, maggie. thanks for the introduction chrissy. it s definitely an interesting being on the other side of this. i m excited to do my first lecture here at the museum since joining the team. so as many of you guys have figured out this is about martha gellhorn, we re gonna talk a little about hemingway as well because you can t talk about martha gellhorn in world war two without talking about the infamous ernest hemingway. and so one of the things that you know, i do want you guys to keep in mind. is that like this whole perception of martha? you know, how did she get to where she was where she did become a famous wartime correspondent. was it based off of her work her reporting in advance, or was it based off of her connections to hemingway? now thinking about wartime correspondence. i do want to kind of fast forward a little bit to look at some more modern wartime correspondence now when i think a female wartime correspondence i go back to my youth. i know ....