Brown students curate Guantánamo exhibition

PROVIDENCE – Twelve Brown University students helped curate the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, an international traveling exhibition featured downtown from Sept. 2-26.
The exhibition can be seen at the University of Rhode Island Feinstein Providence Campus, which is an exhibition partner.
The five undergraduates and seven graduate students – working under the guidance of Anne Valk, deputy director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage – spent the last two years collecting material on Guantánamo’s history of housing Cuban and Haitian refugees and the issues of immigration and human rights.
Started by a professor at Columbia University in 2012, the exhibition includes images, documents and stories from Guantánamo, from both the pre- and post-9-11, and a section that is co-curated by the host school with its own theme. •