Past Event
Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
"Immigration History, Memory, and Museums in France and the United States"
9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, 92093
Cost: Free
Why do issues of history and memory arise at certain moments and not at others? "Lessons of museum-building show it is not just the past that explains the present, but often the present that explains the uses of the past." Talk by Nancy L. Green — author and professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) — in Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107. 858-822-5297.