{"id":10734,"date":"2019-04-20T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T13:30:47","slug":"renee-ater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/renee-ater\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | Ren\u00e9e Ater: Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/cemetary-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/cemetary-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/cemetary-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On <strong>Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library<\/strong>, Ren\u00e9e Ater will give a talk entitled, &#8220;Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ren\u00e9e Ater: Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2n_AVlUE3m0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this public lecture,&nbsp;Ren\u00e9e&nbsp;Ater discusses the processes and challenges of creating a digital project\/publication about the memorialization of slavery. Her project,&nbsp;<em>Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement<\/em>, investigates how we visualize, interpret, and engage the slave past through contemporary monuments created for public spaces. Through an examination of twenty-five monuments in the South, Midwest, and Northeast, she tells a diverse and multi-layered story about our engagement with slavery in the present. Arranged thematically, she considers six digital case studies that include monuments to the Transatlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage, slavery and the university, resistance to enslavement, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, black soldiers and the Civil War, and emancipation and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ren\u00e9e Ater<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/ReneeAter-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/ReneeAter-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/ReneeAter-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ren\u00e9e Ater is Associate Professor Emerita of American Art\nat the University of Maryland. She holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin\nCollege (1987); a M.A. in art history from the University of Maryland (1993);\nand a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland (2000). Her research\nand writing have largely focused on the intersection of race, monument\nbuilding, and national identity. Ren\u00e9e is currently a Senior Fellow at the\nSmithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, working on her digital publication\nproject: <em>Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization,\nPublic Space, and Civic Engagement<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, April 30, 2019<br><strong>Time<\/strong>: 4 p.m.<br><strong>Location<\/strong>: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Ren\u00e9e Ater will give a talk entitled, &#8220;Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities.\u201d Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the talk. Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities In this public lecture,&nbsp;Ren\u00e9e&nbsp;Ater discusses the processes <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/renee-ater\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | Ren\u00e9e Ater: Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-home-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}