Total Recall: Documenting the Past at Home and Abroad
Three Mount Holyoke students will present their work with local and global events that continue to shape our world. Brenda Rivera ’07 and Tamara Bullock ’07 are exploring the potential of oral history. Rivera will share the narrative that links her family to the upheaval in the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo regime and to the race riots in Newark, New Jersey during the 1960s. Bullock will transport us to the volatile world of the Palestinian Intifada and share the account she has developed in collaboration with a fellow student who has survived that upheaval in the Middle East. Lee Bouse, an MHC special student, will share a photo-documentary of never-before-seen images from the 1997 MHC campus protests. The struggle, sparked by calls for safe spaces and additions of ethnic studies courses, included student sit-ins, takeovers of administrative buildings, rallies, and hours of productive dialogue between students, faculty, staff, and the administration.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, May 6
Time: 9:45-11:00 AM
Speaker: Brenda Rivera '07, Tamara Bullock '07, Lee Bouse SP
Place: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Admission: Free and open to the public.
