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 Rice members of the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice W. Caleb McDaniel, Alexander Byrd, and Fabiola Lopez-Duran. This event is co-presented with the departments of Architecture and Art History at Rice University. 

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 Lopez-Duran, Associate Professor of Art History, Director of the Racial Geographies Project
Moderated by Igor Marjanović, William Ward Watkin Dean of Architecture
 

LUNCH 1:15 – 2:00 pm