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Curating Guantánamo: Public History and Public Awareness

The U.S. naval station on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Image courtesy of Library of Congress. “Guantánamo” has become an international symbol of the United States’ War on Terror and a lightning rod for...

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Exhibit Visitors Respond to Guantánamo

The Guantánamo Public Memory Project is using innovative technologies to foster dialogue about Guantánamo and the issues the site has come to represent. Visitors to the traveling exhibit are invited to...

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Guantánamo Public Memory Project Exhibit on Washington Square, NYC

Opening at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life Windows Gallery December 13, 2012 and traveling to 9 sites (and counting) across the country through at least 2014, the exhibit explores GTMO’s...

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Guantánamo Public Memory Project Exhibit at Rutgers

The traveling exhibit of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project is now open for viewing at Rutgers’s Mabel Smith Douglass Library in New Brunswick, New Jersey from February 18 to March 29. Rutgers’s...

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Rutgers University to Host “Curating Guantánamo” Event March 28 & 29

In 2012, students at 11 universities around the country joined together as part of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project and asked: what can GTMO’s history tell us about what’s happening now—there, and...

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University of West Florida Students Collect Stories of Past GTMO Residents

A team of students at the University of West Florida ask: “Should memories of the past residents be part of the current dialogue surrounding GTMO?” An article recently published in Connection, a...

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GPMP Exhibit Travels to IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery

Nicknamed GTMO, the United States naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has a history that is infamous and yet unknown to most Americans. A new traveling exhibit running April 10 through May 12, 2013...

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Exhibit and Conference Ask “Why Guantánamo?” at IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery

Opening night of “Why Guantánamo?” exhibition, April 10, 2013, IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana. Photo courtesy Dave Jaynes, IUPUI Visual Media Nicknamed GTMO, the United States...

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“Speaking of Guantánamo”: The Project, Public Memory and Pop Culture

Inmate in a Camp 5 cafeteria at Guantánamo. Courtesy Joint Task Force. Before our Indianapolis reception for the opening of the GPMP exhibit, I was concerned that people would not be thinking of GTMO....

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GPMP Traveling Exhibit Opening at University of California, Riverside on June...

UCR ARTSblock presents “Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag”, on view at the California Museum of Photography from June 1 through September 7, 2013. The California Museum of...

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8th Grade Students Debate The History of Guantánamo

A class of 8th grade students from St. Richard’s Episcopal School in Indianapolis, Indiana visited the Guantánamo Public Memory Project’s traveling exhibit earlier this month as part of an assignment...

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Opening Night of UCR ARTSblock’s “Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo...

An idyllic California landscape painting with a prison nestled in the distance greets the visitors as they enter the California Museum of Photography in the fourth stop of the Guantánamo Public Memory...

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Guantánamo and My Home

I feel very fortunate to have been able to participate as a dialogue facilitator for the Guantánamo Public Memory Project as a student at Rutgers University.  It has been one of the most fulfilling...

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To Explore Guantánamo Is To Explore Empire

I did not truly begin to understand imperialism until I read modern Arabic literature in an undergraduate course at Rutgers. Though I had long been aware of empires as a concept, I had no grasp of what...

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What Contradictions Allow Detention at GTMO?

Men detained at Guantánamo under the War on Terror. Courtesy Getty Image. We have talked about this dream since you were a young man . . . how the American Dream is so much more than a good night’s...

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Companion projects for the traveling exhibit

Our traveling exhibit was launched at New York University in December, 2012. Since then it has been hosted by partner institutions across the country, and will continue traveling for the rest of the...

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Guantánamo in film

Each new host institution brings its own style to our traveling exhibit. Having so many collaborating students and universities means that new ideas and ways of engaging the public are constantly being...

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The Language of Detention

Word cloud based on the so-called “torture memo” by Jay S. Bybee Enemy combatants. Enhanced interrogation techniques. Indefinite detention. The language we use to communicate Guantánamo’s recent...

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Guantánamo Public Memory Project takes over Miami

The itinerary for our traveling exhibit crisscrosses the country, from Providence, Rhode Island to Riverside, California; from St. Paul, Minnesota to Phoenix, Arizona. Each stop on the itinerary brings...

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Opening Night of UMass Amherst’s “Why Guantánamo?” Series

September 11th continues to elicit painful memories of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93.  At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst this year, the attacks...

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