Artists and activists discuss the impact of 19th and 20th century racialized symbolism in the 21st century. The conversation will explore a range of responses from removing monuments to systemic racism from view to the renaming of institutions to visually contextualizing the founder of the United States or Confederate War Heroes as the slave-owners they actually were.

The symposium, Mascots, Myths, Monuments, and Memory, examines the history and contested memory of racialized mascots and Civil War monuments and other public memorials. In this segment, Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen), writer and policy analyst, 350.org, speaks on the second panel topic of the day, Monuments and Power: Memory vs.