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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Troubling Heritage: Contemporary Museums and the Terrain of the Civil War in a Southern City Monday, October 21, 2013 Richmond Virginia, erstwhile capital of the Confederacy, is a city that memorialized in its built landscape the ideology of the “Lost Cause.” This lecture will provide a preliminary sketch for the ways that local history and art museums with national stature have responded and continue to respond to this troubling heritage as they try to create a more salutary urban imagined community. These museums are leaders in a wider movement among US cities of a certain size to explicitly link cultural development to urban renewal. As such they must attract a national audience while not alienating local communities which, for their part, are often polarized along all too familiar racial and ideological lines. Eric Gable is a professor of anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. He is a managing editor for the journal Museum and Society and the associate editor for book reviews for American Ethnologist. Location: RKC 103 Sponsor: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Art History and Visual Culture Program; Historical Studies Program Contact: Cynthia Koch. E-mail: [email protected] If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://anthropology.bard.edu/events/