Gilder Lehrman Center: “Civil War History Journal Roundtable: Deborah Willis’ The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship”

Event time: 
Friday, May 13, 2022 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Zoom Session See map
Event description: 

The Gilder Lehrman Center presents Crystal Feimster and Jim Downs: 

“Civil War History Journal Roundtable: Deborah Willis’ The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.”

Register here.

Introductions: David Blight

Moderator: Jim Downs (Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History, Gettysburg College)

Panelists

  • Cheryl Finley (Spelman College, Director of Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies)
  • Matthew Fox-Amato (History Department, University of Idaho)
  • Sarah Lewis (Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, Harvard University)
  • Nell Painter (Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University)
  • Anne M. Shumard (Senior Curator of Photographs, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery)
  • Deborah Willis (University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Admission: 
Free but register in advance
Open to: 
General Public