MEMORIAL TO THE ENSLAVED

February 11

6 PM

Panel

Learn more about William & Mary’s upcoming Memorial to the Enslaved through a discussion by the project’s key stakeholders. The intention for the memorial is to serve as a place for the community to gather and heal. The final design, Hearth, by William Sendor, W&M ’11 was unveiled in 2020 and construction is slated to begin in 2021. Panelists include Jody Allen, Director of The Lemon Project; Chon Glover, Chief Diversity Officer; Susan Kern, Executive Director of Historic Campus; Ed Pease, architect and adjunct professor; Burt Pinnock, Principal, Chairman, Baskervill; and William Sendor, W&M ’11, designer.

SPACES ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO IN MEDIEVAL AND CONTEMPORARY

March 28

6 PM

Kathleen Jenkins, Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology, 

Co-Director, Institute for Pilgrimage Studies, William & Mary

Jessica Streit, Assistant Professor of Islamic & Medieval Art, College of Charleston

Jessica Streit will begin the evening presentation with medieval Le Puy-en-Velay, a city that serves as the starting point for one of the four major routes to Santiago de Compostela. Her talk will feature two of the city’s 12th-century pilgrimage monuments, showing how they engender feelings of arrival and a desire to keep moving for their audience of pilgrims. Kathleen Jenkins will then bring us to the 21st century. Drawing from her recent ethnography, Walking the Way Together: How Families Connect on the Camino de Santiago, Jenkins will present stories of families investing in pilgrimage as a practice for strengthening kin relationships and becoming a part of each other’s emotional and spiritual understandings.

REFLECTING ABSENCE AT THE 9/11 MEMORIAL

April 22

6 PM

Michael Arad, Architect

In 2004, Michael Arad won the design competition for the World Trade Center memorial. Arad, a young Israeli-American architect, studied architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture and lived in New York when the Towers fell. His design, entitled Reflecting Absence, was selected out of over 5,000 entries and is a powerful example of commemorative and healing architecture. In this talk, Arad will give insights into his process and the healing nature of memorials.

THE HEALING WALL SCREENING

March 29 – April 1

Streaming online

The Healing Wall (2015) documentary was created by director Christopher Kosinski and a small group of students while attending Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana). Together, they researched and interviewed veterans including Jan C. Scruggs, Esq., Founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and other key players to tell the story of how 21-year-old college student Maya Lin’s unconventional design of landscape architecture led to the healing of a nation from the
Vietnam War.

2015 | CC | 1 hour 3 minutes

THE HEALING WALL DISCUSSION

April 1

6 PM

Christopher Kosinski, Film Director

Jan C. Scruggs, Esq., Founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Join us for a virtual discussion and Q&A moderated by David Brashear with The Healing Wall documentary film director Christopher Kosinski and Jan C. Scruggs, Esq., who conceived of and was instrumental in the creation of the monument. This absorbing documentary tells the story of how the Vietnam Veterans Memorial came into being and the powerful role it has in healing a nation.