Free CLE at Case: Collective Memory and Racial Conflict
On Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Case Western Reserve Law School hosts “Collective Memory: How the Present Shapes the Past Told through a Philadelphia Story About George Washington and Slavery”. Professor Marc Howard Ross, political science professor at Bryn Mawr College will speak about collective memory and its role in ethnic and racial conflict and conflict mitigation, specifically focusing a current controversy which has gone on for the past nine years in Philadelphia concerning George Washington’s house in the city and the nine enslaved Africans who lived there. (NPR story on the controversy)
1.0 of CLE credit is available. The lecture is free and open to the public.
