learning through history and historical approaches
Events 2024-25
Benjamin Barson, ‘Brassroots Democracy‘, October 17
- Brassroots Democracy unearths vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freed people during Reconstruction and the decades that followed.
Hester Barron and Ben Highmore, ‘The Cultural Infrastructures of Childhood‘, December 4
- Barron and Highmore discuss children’s playgrounds, listening and historical approaches to archive material.