The History Department and College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Cleveland State University are partnering with the Memory & Resistance Coalition to offer a public event: “Activism” An Interdisciplinary Conversation.” Six scholars, activists, and community members will facilitate an informal discussion based on three guiding questions focusing on contemporary and historical examples of resistance as well as how individuals conceptualize their own acts of resistance. The History Department and College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Cleveland State University are partnering with the Memory & Resistance Coalition to offer a public event: “Activism” An Interdisciplinary Conversation.” Six scholars, activists, and community members will facilitate an informal discussion based on three guiding questions focusing on contemporary and historical examples of resistance as well as how individuals conceptualize their own acts of resistance.

The facilitators will post 5-7 minute reflections to the guiding questions prior to the event and we invite all interested participants and community members to submit reflections for archiving at EngagedScholarship at Cleveland State University. There are often limited archival records of individuals reflecting on their roles in acts of resistance. This event will bring these experiences and reflections to the forefront, creating a repository around the critical question of what it means to be an activist from individual perspectives rather than the labels applied by historians and other scholars, often after the events have occurred. Furthermore, this repository will serve as an archival record of the Memory and Resistance Coalition year for use by educators, activists, students and community members.