The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting

Event Instances

• Wednesday, September 23, 2026 2:45 P.M.

Event Details

Roundtable 2 of the Liberal Studies symposium "History, Memory, and America at 250"

This roundtable features the 2026-27 Bingham Faculty Fellows who will explore this year’s CCHS theme: “The Politics of Remembering (and Forgetting).” The fellows will reflect on how their research, creative work, and/or teaching intersects with questions of critical memory studies and what it means to engage these questions in our current political moment. 

Moderator: Mary P Sheridan (The Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society)

Participants:
-    David Anderson (English)
-    Catron Booker (Theater Arts)
-    Tyler Fleming (History & Pan-African Studies)
-    Michael Portal (Philosophy)
-    Dana Potter (Art & Design)
-    Selene Phillips (Communication)

Sponsored by the Liberal Studies Visiting Scholars Project and the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society