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RADICAL MEMORY, STRATEGIC FORGETTING: RACE, SYMBOLIC POWER, AND THE POLITICS OF COMMEMORATION AT STORER COLLEGE IN WEST VIRGINIA, Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:30-6:00 pm, HMH Great Room
Lecture by Professor Michael J. Drexler Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:30-6:00 pmHMH Great Room This talk intervenes in memory studies and African American intellectual history by analyzing how the memory of slavery and John Brown’s legacy was contested within the symbolic and institutional space of Storer College, a historically Black school in Harpers Ferry. Drawing…