CTI AND MORVEN HOST JOINT EVENT

9/20/2009

Featuring two lectures related to the current exhibit at Morven Museum & Garden, Let Your Motto Be Resistance - African American Portraits, an event sponsored by CTI and Morven was held on Sunday, September 20, from 2-4:30 PM.. Following a warm welcome to the Center by Director William Storrar, Dr. Peter Paris, CTI Member and Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary, spoke on "The Spirituality of Resistance in the African American Experience." Dr. Paris was followed by Dr. Clement A. Price, Professor of History at Rutgers University, Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, who spoke on "Imagining African American History in Public Spaces." These marvelous lectures were followed by an inspiring tour of the Morven exhibit, led by Anne Gossen, Morven's Artistic & Academic Director and Curator of Exhibitions.