Conversation with Jesús Tirado, Assistant Professor of Social Science Education, Elijah Gaddis, Associate Professor of History, Kristen Tordella-Williams, Associate Professor of Art, and Rose McLarney, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, who discuss their class assignments about monuments in America, produced in response to the exhibition “Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French” on view at The Jule.
10 a.m.
The Jule galleries will reopen with brand new exhibitions, Monuments and Myths and Indecent Spaces. Radical Naturalism — Kevin Brisco: Migratory Roots will also reopen.
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Each Day (Early Drop off available at 8:00 am)
For ages 11 – 13
Price: $150 (Use promo code SUMMER for siblings at checkout.)
The Art of Game Design
Campers will learn all about the game design process for creating analogue (board and card) games and basic digital games. Students will make their own games and complete working versions of them by the end of camp.
Have any questions? Please contact Christy Barlow, PreK-12/Family Programs Manager at clb0130@auburn.edu.
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Instructor:
Cody Mejeur is Assistant Professor of Game Studies at the University at Buffalo. They have published on teaching with games, identity in games, and video game narratives and player experiences, and they are currently the game director for Trans Folks Walking, a narrative game about trans experiences. Their research has been featured at many international conferences and events, including the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and Pictoplasma, and their games have been exhibited at Science Gallery Detroit and Meaningful Play. They are Director of the Narrative for Social Justice (N4SJ) Initiative with the International Society for the Study of Narrative and work with the LGBTQ Video Game Archive on preserving and visualizing LGBTQ representation. They are editor at One Shot: A Journal of Critical Games & Play and serve as Diversity Officer for the Digital Games Research Association.
Student Guides at The Jule share personal stories inspired by objects currently on view at the museum to celebrate the end of the Spring 2023 semester at Auburn University.
6 – 7 p.m.
Art, coffee, and conversation Thursday nights at the Jule. Every week will feature a new host or presentation to guide attendees through a casual conversation about arts and culture.
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This Week:
Adam Domby, Associate Professor, History, Auburn University
Adam Domby is a historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction. His first book, The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (University of Virginia Press, 2020), examines the role of lies and exaggeration, in the creation of Lost Cause narratives of the war, as well as their
connections to white supremacy. Looking at pension fraud, Confederate monument dedications, and other myths reveals that much of our understanding of the Civil War remains influenced by falsehoods
and racism.
Domby has written on a variety of topics including prisoners of war, guerrilla warfare, and genealogy. His current book project At War with Itself, focuses on southerners fighting their neighbors during the American Civil War and examines the legacy of those local fights that civil wars inevitably create. His research centers on the role these conflicts played in three divided southern communities during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Close examination of the social dynamics of these southern communities reveals new insights into why the Confederacy lost, why Reconstruction ended the way it did, and the distinctiveness of southern society, culture, and politics.
He is also currently researching, with Dr. Shari Rabin, a biography of the nineteenth–century rabbi conman. Through the misadventures of one man, the project will examine various aspects of the second half of the nineteenth century including political culture and corruption, Unionism, and American
Judaism.
Before his arrival at Auburn, Domby was an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston.
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Join The Jule this summer for a series of open–level yoga classes with rotating instructors from The Yoga Room. Classes are free and open to all levels. Limited mats available on site.
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Yoga with instructors from The Yoga Room
Heather Clemmons
Heather Clemons is a newcomer to the Auburn area and has been a yoga teacher in southern middle Tennessee since 2017. She has a background teaching yoga in the hatha style to bodies of all ages and experience levels. She lives in Auburn with her husband Chase, and two children, Elliott and Margot, and their dog, Kaylee. She is grateful to be a part of and teach yoga in such a vibrant and diverse community.
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Join The Jule for two mindful making workshops this summer. Each session will feature a different contemplative activity suitable for all levels. Supplies included.
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Mindful Making
Christy Barlow, The Jule PreK-12/Family Programs Manager
This month we will take inspiration from the museum’s permanent collection and create alcohol ink tiles inspired by the work of Whitney Wood Bailey.
6 – 7 p.m.
Art, coffee, and conversation Thursday nights at the Jule. Every week will feature a new host or presentation to guide attendees through a casual conversation about arts and culture.
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This Week:
Jesus A. Tirado, Assistant Professor, Education, Auburn University and Elijah Gaddis, Associate Professor, History, Auburn University
Elijah Gaddis studies the spatial, material, and cultural histories of the 19th and 20th–century South. His first book, Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. This work looks at the souvenirs, mementos, and relics collected and created to preserve the memory of lynchings over the course of a century. Rooted in interdisciplinary methods – material culture, ethnography, spatial and landscape studies – the book examines the lingering attachments to objects of racial violence and collective accountability for the afterlives of these fraught objects.
As a public and digital historian, Gaddis has curated a variety of exhibits, built online archives and projects, and run oral history initiatives. Much of his recent public history work has been through the Community Histories Workshop (CHW) which he co–founded. The CHW is a joint initiative of the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill and Auburn University and works in collaboration with organizations and individuals to research, gather, interpret, and preserve untold histories. Gaddis is currently collaborating with a range of community partners including: Klein Arts & Culture, the Boykin Community Center, the Garden District Preservation Association, and Landmarks Foundation of Montgomery. His work with colleagues and collaborators has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park
Service, and a range of other organizations.
In his public history work, and in his teaching, Gaddis focuses on community engagement and collaboration. At Auburn, he teaches courses on landscape and spatial history, material culture, museum studies, and digital humanities.
20% off all regularly priced merchandise.
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Join The Jule this summer for a series of open–level yoga classes with rotating instructors from The Yoga Room. Classes are free and open to all levels. Limited mats available on site.
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Yoga with instructors from The Yoga Room
Paulina Arroyo
