History department hosts lecture on events of Charlottesville, Charleston
The history department at the College of William and Mary held a lecture symposium called “After Charlottesville: Memorials, Monuments and Memory” on Friday, Oct. 26. The panel framed the symposium around recent tragedies regarding memorialization and historical memory, such as the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which resulted in the death of Heather Heyer, and the 2015 church shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which claimed nine victims. The symposium facilitated a dialogue on the issue of historical memorialization and the problems surrounding physical memories of the past.
