Missing: Museums, Memorials, & Gentrification

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In this seminar, we will study different strategies for representing absence in various contexts and media. Working with objects, controversial monuments, and gentrification, we will explore curatorial strategies, public art policies, and neighborhood resistance to community transformation, displacement, and change. Focusing on how the production of history also causes erasure, we will draw on memory studies, urban culture histories, and public humanities to engage with the potential problems and possibilities of exhibiting, correcting, and honoring what is absent. We will also explore how attending to what is lost or missing invites new ways of looking.