Sites of Memory: New Orleans and Rio de Jainero

 

 

 

 

 

 

TULANE'S SAWYER SEMINAR PRESENTS

SITES OF MEMORY: 

NEW  ORLEANS + RIO DE JANEIRO

EXPLORING DISPLACEMENT AND URBAN RENEWAL IN TREMÉ AND VALONGO WHARF 

This series of events highlights community activism in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro as ways to challenge disinvestment in Afro-descendent neighborhoods, raising questions about the tendency for these places to be subordinated to outward-facing urban “renewal”.

December 7 | 6 pm

Screening of "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans”

In Stone Auditorium, 210 Woldenberg Art Center

December 10 | 3:30 pm 

Panel Discussion with Dr. Lorraine Leu, Sara Zewde, Freddi Williams Evans, Luther Gray

3rd Floor Newcomb Commons

December 12 | afternoon

Tour of the Tremé

Starting at the New Orleans African American Museum 

Tulane University’s 2021/2022 Sawyer Seminar, "Sites of Memory: New Orleans and Place-Based Histories of the Americas" – organized by the Newcomb Art Department and School of Liberal Arts and sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – takes New Orleans as a key case study for a broader understanding of settler-colonial, formerly slavery-fueled economies in the Americas using the theme of site-based public history and memorialization. 

For more information and questions about accessibility, contact ctucker6@tulane.edu or go online to sitesofmemorynola.org