Event page: “Setting the Table: Descendant Communities, Institutions, and Engagement Toward Possible Futures”

Event
“Setting the Table: Descendant Communities, Institutions, and Engagement Toward Possible Futures”
When: Thursday April 20, 2023, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Harvard Commons, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA
Event Description
The Harvard & Legacy of Slavery Memorialization Committee invite you to explore the complexity of history and memory, and the role communities play in helping institutions reckon with the past in the present. This first installment in a series of programs focuses on the change-agents and descendant community voices shaping the future of this work at James Madison’s Montpelier. To set the table and anchor this important dialogue, a framing introduction will be provided by FAS Chief Campus Curator Brenda Tindal, and Professor Vince Brown will serve as moderator.
This conversation is hosted by Harvard Common Spaces, and is part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts.

Accessibility
Harvard University welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact bailey_thaxton@harvard.edu, Project Manager for Arts and Culture, in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance, if possible. Please note that the university will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.
Introduction: Brenda Tindal
FAS Chief Campus Curator
Moderator: Vincent Brown
Charles Warren Professor of American History and of African and African American Studies
Panelist: Dr. Elizabeth Chew
Senior Director of Museum Programs and Chief Curator, Montpelier
Panelist: James French
Chair, Montpelier Foundation
Panelist: Hannah Scruggs
Public historian and PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Panelist: Rev. Lawrence E. Walker, Sr.
President, Montpelier Descendants Committee