City Lore

The Public History Project

City Lore is New York City’s center for urban folk culture. Its mission is to foster the City’s -  and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs in service of cultural equity and social justice. The Public History Project, a project of City Lore, is an interdisciplinary research consortium that maps how the connections between dispossession, enslavement, migration, and extractive trade networks have led to historical and current ecological crises. The award supports the Public History Project’s conference Dismantling Eugenics: Legacies, Reckonings, Futures and related activities. The conference is being held virtually from September 27 to October 2, 2021, and will convene a multi-disciplinary group of advocates, scholars, educators, scientists, philanthropists, journalists, activists, and others to envision and work toward an anti-eugenicist future. Conference sessions will reexamine the history of eugenics in a contemporary context; highlight the places and organizations that have successfully reckoned with eugenics legacies; and explore ways of addressing eugenics thinking that is embedded in our shifting social and political landscape.