Talks focus on war, peace, museums.Byline: The Register-Guard A lecture series that kicks off tonight will explore ideas about war and peace by looking at the museums and memorials that chronicle times of conflict. The six-part series is titled "Memorials and Museums of Conflict and War." All lectures are free and open to the public and will start at 7 p.m. Wednesdays in Room 150, Columbia Hall on the University of Oregon campus The University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field, which is the site for the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium and the . Tonight's speaker is Edward Linenthal, a professor of American history at Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. . He will discuss "From Lexington and Concord Noun 1. Lexington and Concord - the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775) Lexington, Concord American Revolution, American Revolutionary War, American War of Independence, War of American Independence - the revolution of the American to 9/11: The Memorial Landscape of Violence." Linenthal, who serves on the federal advisory committee for the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa., is the author of "Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefield" and "Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm in American Memory American Memory is an Internet-based archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content. It is published by the Library of Congress. The archive came into existence on October 13, 1994 after $13,000,000 was raised in donations. ." The lecture series is part of a two-year program called "Cities in War, Struggle and Peace: The Architecture of Memory and Life." "In many places in the world, from the Middle East to South Africa to American battlefields and, in a few years, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , museums and memorials are built with the hope that memory might help prevent future conflict," said UO architecture professor Howard Davis, who is organizing the lectures. "The intention of this series is to further our understanding of war and peace through understandings of buildings and cities that have been affected or inspired by war." The series is sponsored by the Carleton and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace, the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts, and the Oregon Humanities Center. The remaining lectures will be Jan. 24 and 31 and Feb. 7, 14 and 21. More information is available at www.uoregon.edu/ ~humanctr/AAAlectures.htm. |
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