Event

The Hubert H. Humphrey Lecture | History Written in Lightning: Racial Memory, Woodrow Wilson, and the Making of the Nation

Date & Time

Tuesday

Feb. 11, 2020

5:00pm – 6:00pm ET

Location

6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center

Event Sponsor

Urban Sustainability Laboratory

Overview

Viewing Woodrow Wilson’s legacy through a racial lens can illuminate our own time. This lecture explores how Wilson’s views of racial possibility in the United States shaped our political, cultural, and personal discourses throughout the twentieth century, and continue to reverberate in the present.

Introduction

Jane Harman

Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center

Keynote Speaker

Jonathan Holloway

Provost, Northwestern University; 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow in Social and Political Thought, Wilson Center

Panelist

Blair A. Ruble

Distinguished Fellow;
Former Wilson Center Vice President for Programs (2014-2017); Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Program/Urban Sustainability Laboratory (1992-2017); Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1989-2012) and Director of the Program on Global Sustainability and Resilience (2012-2014)

Hosted By

Urban Sustainability Laboratory

Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges—such as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation—by promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities. Read more

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