BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:503@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T190000 DTSTAMP:20220219T173705Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/spring-2021-sciame-le cture-series-amber-wiley/ SUMMARY:Spring 2022 Sciame Lecture Series: Amber Wiley DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the fourth event of our Spring Lecture Serie s\, titled "A Quest for a Continuing Revolution: Black Heritage and the 19 76 Bicentennial"\, featuring Amber Wiley.⁠\n\nThis lecture is part of th e 2022 Spring Sciame Lecture Series\, themed “Radical Black Space.”\n ⁠\nAll lectures will be presented via Zoom and held on Thursdays at 6pm NYC time. ⁠\n\nFree and open to the public - Register below. Register he re and then check your email immediately for the passcode needed to join.\ n\n\n\n \;\nA Quest for a Continuing Revolution: Black Heritage and th e 1976 Bicentennial\nWiley’s talk will focus on the research she is curr ently conducting as an Mellon Urban Landscape Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks\, a s well as the National Historic Landmark nomination update she completed f or the Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site. She examines the legacy a nd impact of the Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation (ABC)\, illustrati ng how the ABC set the precedent for a more nuanced understanding of the A merican past by expanding the National Park Service’s inclusion of Black historic landmarks twentyfold\, including the Woodson site. The organizat ion’s mission was to increase participation of African Americans in the 1976 Bicentennial and to direct projects that highlighted Black history\, but most importantly to be a “‘vehicle’ for improving the lives of B lack Americans.” ⁠ The group worked to “continue the revolution” through the “process of decolonization\, a movement toward self-realizat ion and self-government by people determined not to be kept in a subject s tatus.” Wiley’s research will tell the story of the broadening of hist oric preservation field in the Bicentennial area\, and document the histor y and condition of the landmarks nominated by ABC. Preservation was a tact ic for curating a cultural heritage that hitherto was rendered invisible\, but the aims of ABC were also a part of the larger freedom struggle for B lack Americans. Her work will connect this important past with the continu ing effort to identify\, contextualize\, and save Black landmarks within c urrent preservation practice.\nSuggested Reading: Carter G. Woodson NHL No mination Update\n\n\nSPEAKER\nAmber N. Wiley\n\nAmber N. Wiley is an assis tant professor of art history at Rutgers University. Her research interest s center on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communit ies—architecture as a literal and figural structure of power. She focuse s on the ways local and national bodies have made the claim for the domina ting narrative and collective memory of cities and examines how preservati on and public history contribute to the creation and maintenance of the id entity and sense of place of a city. Her publications cover African Americ an cultural heritage\, urbanism in New Orleans\, school design\, urban ren ewal\, and preservation. She has served on the National Heritage Sites Res earch Committee of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History\, the National Historic Landmarks Committee of the National Pa rk System Advisory Board\, and on the boards of the Vernacular Architectur e Forum\, Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians\, and the Yale Black Alumni Association.\n\nhttps://ambernwiley.com/\n\n \; \nSeries Theme -- Radical Black Space\nThe Spring 2022 Sciame Lecture seri es\, themed Radical Black Space\, brings together architects\, preservatio nists\, planners\, artists\, and historians of color at a precipitous mome nt. The Movement for Black Lives demands that Americans from all walks of life confront racism and its sordid impact on constructed environments\, a nd understand the rich\, vital tradition of Black resistance\, innovation\ , and creativity. Speakers will touch on many questions: How do the places and things made by African Americans disrupt the racial status quo in the United States? How is difference celebrated? How is equity imagined and a chieved? What constitutes anti-racist spatial practice? Radical Black Spac e shows that the Black radical tradition is alive in art and architecture\ , and that having a handle on Black history is essential to understanding the present and shaping the future. Join us to find revolution in the ever yday and to recognize the extraordinary places and objects that Black Amer icans make and the stories they tell about themselves. Radical Black Space is convened by Marta Gutman and Jerome Haferd.\nSciame Lecture Series wit h additional funding provided by the Bernard &\; Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Fund. 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