SFPUL Event: Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021
A special private tour of the latest exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library for the Student Friends of Princeton University Library.
Selma, Lahore, Warsaw, Santiago … “Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021,” Princeton University Library’s latest exhibition, captures continuity and change in practices of protest and activism in diverse geographic contexts and around issues that may be particular to an area or of universal concern. The exhibition will include images that range from sacred Passover Haggadot that embody Jews’ spiritual resistance to their oppressors during and immediately after the Holocaust, to dramatic photographs of marchers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, to vibrant posters and pamphlets created by protesters taking to the streets of Santiago, Chile and Lahore, Pakistan only a few years ago.
“Records of Resistance” considers how issues of perennial concern including indigenous, gender, and LGBTQIA rights, social inequality, antisemitism, and systemic racism manifest in resistance over time and across the globe.
Three of the five curators will be in attendance to provide brief tours of the exhibition: Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez, Will Clements, and Gabrielle Winkler.
A reception will take place in the lobby after the tour.