Re-imagining America

Dr. Shelley Fishkin, Co-Director of Stanford University’s Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project presents “Re-imagining America: Sites of Trauma and Possibility in Cultural Memory”. How have Chinese American and Mexican American artists and writers re-imagined places and chapters of the past that are sites of haunting absence and ghostly presence in the cultural memory of their communities? This talk will examine how contemporary artists and writers have transformed the U.S.-Mexico Border and the landscape of the Transcontinental Railroad—iconic sites of violence, erasure and invisibility—into sites of creativity.