2024 SUMMER INSTITUTE
Black & Indigenous Histories
Summer Institute for College and University Teachers
June 12 - July 8, 2024
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Virginia
Led by Kate Howell (UMD); Meghan Gough (VCU); Andrea Roberts (UVa); and Thaïsa Way (Harvard U)
Marcus-David Peters Circle (2020), formerly Lee Circle, on Monument Avenue. Claimed by community activists during the uprising in the summer of 2020, the circle was renamed after Marcus-David Peters, a man killed by police during a mental health emergency. The space around the monument included memorials to other victims of police violence, a community garden, information tables and basketball hoops.
Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown's Island - installed in 2021, it highlights both the emancipation proclamation and the work of Virginians in the work of self-emancipation.
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The "A People’s History of Landscape" website contributes to efforts in the academy to address complex histories of land, labor, and place-making. A People's History of Landscape--2024 NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty, will bring together scholars from across the nation to explore alternative approaches to scholarship and teaching landscape and place-oriented social and cultural histories, centering Black and Indigenous historical narratives in the founding of the United States and the cultural landscape of one of its earliest colonies, the Commonwealth of Virginia. This website contains an online repository of teaching modules, syllabi, and Institute materials from past Summer Institutes and expands the growing community of scholars dedicated to creating A People’s History of Landscape.
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