Let's connect! Meet the fun, fascinating folks uncovering hidden urban histories and envisioning better futures. At this social event we'll get to know each other and brainstorm a bit about future projects. It will be a reunion for past Global Urban Humanities Initiative participants and a kickoff of the new Future Histories Lab program. https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98911417881

Photo Courtesy: Hallie Q. Brown Community Center In the 1950s, the Minnesota Department of Transportation routed the highway connecting the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul through a predominantly Black neighborhood called Rondo, ultimately displacing 750 families through eminent domain. For over 50 years now, Rondo residents have asserted and reasserted control over their own narrative ... Read moreDisplacement Stories: Lessons from a Community History Harvest

In this talk presented by the Townsend Center, Anthony Cascardi and Catherine Gallagher ask how narrative gives sense to events, and whether narrative forms that have served in times of past crisis (the novel, the epic, history writing) might provide meaning in the pandemic era.