At Museums and Cultural Centers

Lloyd Library and Museum/Findlay Market:

Karim Tiro's seminar on public history curated two exhibits on the history of sugar. The first, Sugar and the Body: Historical Treasures from the Lloyd Collections, was executed by history students Destiny Harris, Becky McGonigle, and Danielle Meiners. This exhibit used the Lloyd's extraordinary holdings of early modern medical texts to explore physicians' debates about sugar as Europeans began consuming more and more of it. View the partial online version of the exhibit. Harris, class of 2009, is now in her first year of law school at the College of William and Mary.

The second exhibition, Bittersweet: The History of Sugar in North America, was mounted at Findlay Market from May through July 2009. The exhibit focused on the rise of sugar production and consumption in 18th- and 19th-century America, as well as its effects on U.S. relations with Cuba and Hawaii.

Contemporary Arts Center:

Rachel Chrastil, Dick Gruber, and Julia O'Hara discussed the film Intervista at the Contemporary Arts Center in August 2009. The screening took place in conjunction with the CAC's installation by the film's director, Anri Sala. Their discussion explored how individual memory and collective memories of trauma transform over time.

Cincinnati Museum Center:

Christine Anderson presented a public lecture at the Cincinnati Museum Center's Seminar on the City. The lecture, "Sister of Charity Justina Segale and the Santa Maria Institute: Italian Immigrants in Cincinnati," preceded the Museum Center's opening of the exhibit, Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America.