Explore the history and future of monuments through this half-day, free public symposium. Speakers include: Paul Farber, Director of Monument Lab; art historian Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh; Houston-based artists Jamal Cyrus and Tiffany Chung; and leaders of Rice's Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice Alexander Byrd, Fabiola Lopez-Duran, and W. Caleb McDaniel. 

Moderators include Graham Bader, Professor of Art History and Director, Humanities Research Center; Igor Marjanović, William Ward Watkin Dean of Architecture; and Alison Weaver, Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director, Moody Center for the Arts. 
 

This event is co-presented with the Rice School of Architecture, the Department of Art History at Rice University, and the Rice Humanities Research Center.

Lunch is included with registration. 

Schedule 

9:00 – 9:15, Coffee and general introductions 

PANEL 1
9:15 – 10:30 am
The State of Monuments and Public Memory
Paul Farber, Director, Monument Lab
Kirk Savage, Professor of Art + Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Moderated by Graham Bader, Rice University Professor of Art History and Director Humanities Research Center

PANEL 2
10:30 – 11:45 am
The Power of Public Art: Contemporary Artists’ Perspective
Jamal Cyrus
Tiffany Chung
Moderated by Alison Weaver, Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director, Moody Center for the Arts
 

15 min break

PANEL 3
12:00 – 1:15 pm 
Future Forward: Monuments, Monumentality, and the Academic Quadrangle
Alexander Byrd, Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Co-director of the Task force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice
Caleb McDaniel, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities and Co-director of the Task force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice
Fabiola López-Durán, Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History, Member of the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, and Co-Director of the Racial Geographies Project
Founding members of the Racial Geography Project Giovanna Bassi Cendra, PhD Candidate in Art History, and Marc Armeña, Rice Class of 2024 (Art History and Mechanical Engineering). 
Moderated by Igor Marjanović, William Ward Watkin Dean of Architecture
 

LUNCH 1:15 – 2:00 pm