The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility is pleased to bring the New Narratives on the Peopling of America to Northwestern University. Join historian Daniel Immerwahr and photographer Christopher Gregory in discussion on the US territory identity in relation to mainland USA.
The New American Narrative on the Peopling of America is a series of lectures and other public events with participants drawn from the academy, journalism, public affairs, and the arts. Stretching back more than three centuries, a debate on who constitutes the American people has engaged this nation. We are now in a time of particularly contentious discourse. We believe that there is an urgent need for a richer and better-informed discussion of the American past, present and future in order to construct a new narrative that can be true to enduring values of welcome, human dignity and equality.
With guidance from Professor Immerwahr and Mr. Gregory, we will continue the journey.
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University, and Magnum Foundation.
Professor Immerwahr is a historian of the United States and the world, serving in the history department at Northwestern University. His first book, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015), offers a critical account of the United States' pursuit of grassroots development at home and abroad in the middle of the twentieth century. His second, the bestselling How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), is a narrative history of the United States with its overseas territory included in the story.
Christopher Gregory Rivera is a Puerto Rican photographer based in New York City. He works extensively on various photographic projects in Puerto Rico and The Americas. His work is particularly interested in examining the residue of power and colonialism. He is a founding member of Blackbox, a visual cooperative that merges the creative processes of photography and design to build immersive stories. He has lectured at the International Center of Photography in New York and in 2019 he was selected for the World Press Photo Foundation Joop Swart Masterclass.
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