History Should Make You Uncomfortable 2023
Channel: CMSMC
Date: 2023-03-05

History Should Make You Uncomfortable is a phrase that we believe calls into question what it is we think we know. Too often, “history” in the grade school classroom is taught as a factual recounting of events in the past. While more specialized iterations of “history” class teach  increasingly nuanced and even critically analyzed material, what we are taught at a very basic level does in some way stay with us and influences the way we think. By asserting that History Should Make You Uncomfortable, we are insisting that there is more to the story you think you know.

Opening Remarks/Welcome: Sydney Sheehan (CMSMC Symposium Committee)


Caroline Marcyes, “The Origin of The World: An Analysis of the Female Nude through Gustave Courbet’s [In]famous Masterpiece”


Dorian Cole, “ Play Things: Teaching Systemic Prejudice through Children's Toys”


Lyric Lott, “Who Are Museums For?: Klan Robes and the Politics of Discomfort in the Exhibit Space”


Christine Staton and Logan Ward
Reconsidering “Curating Heritage Value: Palazzo Strozzi and Florence” & “Colonial Connections: Japanese and Western Orientalisms as Hermeneutics for Korean Material Culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1910-1945)”

Discussion/Q&A with all panelists: led by Hope Gillespie (CMSMC Symposium Committee) 


Closing Remarks: Hope Gillespie (CMSMC Symposium Committee)