⌚️2024-10-22 12:00:00 –
🏢1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St, New York, NY, United States, New York 10029
Join us for a conversation with The Museum’s Puffin Curator of Social Activism, Sarah Seidman. The talk will be accompanied by a selection of fine teas provided by Harney & Sons alongside delicious sandwiches and treats from Les Gateaux de Marie.
About the Speaker:
Sarah J. Seidman is a historian and curator of social movements. She works as the Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York, where she curates the ongoing exhibition Activist New York. She co-curated the current exhibition Shirley Chisholm: A Brooklyn Life, and curated past shows such as Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics, and King in New York on Martin Luther King Jr. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an M.A. in Public Humanities from Brown University. She has received fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the NEH, among others, and speaks often to college classes about doing public history. Her writing has appeared in Radical History Review, The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, and the Journal of Transnational American Studies, among other publications.
General Admission $30 | Members $25
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