Geographical Memory: The 25th Anniversary of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Historic Corridor

From a historical perspective, the creation of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor represents historical revisionism that placed geography and the history of waterborne transportation at the center of local consciousness. The NHC concept has become a national trend that recovers a sense of place in the local and national context.

 Dr. Dennis Cremin — Assistant Professor and Director of the History Center at Lewis University and author of Chicago: A Pictorial Celebration — conducts this program as part of the two-semester "The Art of  Memory" interdisciplinary symposia presented by the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lewis University.  The programs will examine the construction as well as the distortion of historical memory; the relationship of place to memory, the biological formation of memory, divided memory, the cultural as well as religious use of memory and memorials as well as the theme of memory in both contemporary and classical films, music, poetry and literature.