About the Slavery, Race and Memory Project
Wake Forest University, as a southern institution founded decades before the Civil War, has a history bound up with slavery and its tragic legacies. Attempts to recover, understand and reckon more fully with that complex past have accelerated in recent years and are collected in a many-faceted Slavery, Race, and Memory Project. This effort extends across and beyond our Winston-Salem and original Wake Forest, N.C., campuses and includes active membership in the Universities Studying Slavery consortium.
Wake Forest University joined the Universities Studying Slavery consortium to help us understand and acknowledge the role enslaved peoples had in building and growing our University. The “Slavery, Race and Memory Project” will guide the research, preservation, and communication of an accurate depiction of the University’s relationship to slavery and its implications across Wake Forest’s history.
Upcoming Affiliate Events
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April 4, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe Tempest By William Shakespeare Directed by Michael Kamtman April 4-5 & 10-12 at 7:30 pm & April 6 & 13 at 2:00 pm Long ago and somewhere far away: A mighty storm. A shipwreck. An island. Fantastical creatures. A sorcerer and the sorcerer’… -
April 5, 2025 | 5:00pm
Benson University CenterFive world-class musicians will play original compositions influenced by traditional Arabic Maqam music, modern jazz, Appalachian roots and world music from Africa and Latin America. -
April 9, 2025 | 6:00pm
University Activity SpaceShaping the Legacy is the Intercultural Center's end of year celebration aimed to highlight the accomplishments of the Center, students, staff and faculty. -
April 10, 2025 | 4:00pm
Carswell HallThe Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and campus partners invite Dr. LJ Randolph Jr. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) to give a public lecture titled "Languaging as an Act of Abolition, Liberation, and Joy.” In this presentation, Dr. Randolph will encourage us to (re)imagine schools as places … -
April 10, 2025 | 5:00pm
Divinity and Religious Studies BuildingThe Program in African American Studies will be hosting a book talk and public conversation with Dr. Therí A. Pickens. Dr. Pickens is a Professor of English at Bates College, specializing in African American, Arab American and disability literatures and theories. Dr. Shanna Greene Benjamin, Professor of …
Upcoming SRMP Events
SRMP Update
SRMP’s focus is shifting in 2024 to academic endeavors – to be reflected in forthcoming curricular, co-curricular, scholarly and public history-oriented engagements. To orient this shift, SRMP is reorganizing its commitment to a new charge by organizing our efforts into 5 new working groups.
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Campus Memorial Update
Please visit the Campus Memorial website for an update and to view sketches of Conceptual Themes.
Edited by Corey D.B. Walker