Organizing academic conferences. We give out grants and scholarships to students at Virginia Tech and researchers to come and visit and use the special collections at Virginia Tech. We also do outreach projects at local museums, local elementary schools and that kind of thing, so i encourage you to check out our website. Nice and easy to remember. You can also find us on facebook, twitter, or youtube. This is the last event for the academic year, the last on a series of lectures weve been hosted called new perspectives on the civil War Era Speaker series. It has been a wonderful series. Ive enjoyed hearing these emerging voices in civil War History and getting a sense of the future of what the field is going to be over the next years and decades. The series has been organized by me in conjunction with our postdoctoral fellow, dr. Caroline new hall, who is with us this evening and you will hear from her during the q and a session. We will moderate the sessions and steer them toward our
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Since Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation this week in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, his detractors have warned about the risk of “contagion,” suggesting that his protest will encourage imitators (who, they imply, share his alleged mental instability). There may or may not be additional self-immolators before the slaughter comes to an end, just as Bushnell was proceeded by a woman, yet to be identified publicly, who burned herself to death outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta in December. But the purpose of lighting yourself on fire is not to encourage other people to light themselves on fire. It is to scream to the world that you could find no alternative, and in that respect it is a challenge to the rest of us to prove with our own freedom that there are other ways to meaningfully resist a society whose cruelty has become intolerable.