Event
Memory on the Waterfront: Private Development and Public History in Brooklyn, Alexandria, and Charleston
Author: Kathryn K. Lasdow, Suffolk University
Comment: Benjamin Carp, Brooklyn College
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.
“Public Memory on the Waterfront” examines how public history practitioners mediate the relationship between private development and historical preservation in Brooklyn, Alexandria, and Charleston. Focusing on adaptive reuse projects (the Empire Stores, Robinson Landing, The Gadsden condos), it explores tensions between architectural development and the preservation of historical memory at sites once central to the lives of enslaved people and members of the working class. While developers market nostalgic narratives of these “timeless” sites, public historians, preservationists, and archaeologists are working to uncover the complex histories of these sites to challenge a long cycle of historical erasure in urban development.
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Hybrid Event
The in-person reception starts at 4:30 PM and the seminar will begin at 5:00 PM.
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