{"id":4087,"date":"2016-12-01T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:49:33","slug":"the-department-of-the-history-of-art-has-unanimously-approved-the-following-statement-in-response-to-the-presidential-election-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/the-department-of-the-history-of-art-has-unanimously-approved-the-following-statement-in-response-to-the-presidential-election-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Department of the History of Art Has Unanimously Approved the Following Statement in Response to the Presidential Election of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><strong>The Department of the History of Art Has Unanimously Approved the Following Statement in Response to the Presidential Election of 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>RESPONSE TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The Department of the History of Art is committed to the intellectual inquiry and rigorous analysis of artistic practices&nbsp;from across the globe and across time. It is our belief that a socially and politically responsible art history produces&nbsp;encounters with and the study of diverse cultures, which inspires both tolerance and ethical conduct, reminding us of&nbsp;our shared humanity. &nbsp;The repeated instances of xenophobic, racist, and misogynist language that characterized the&nbsp;recent presidential election is antithetical to the principles of this department which stands for the inclusion of a&nbsp;plurality of views. This rhetoric and the actions it engenders threaten the core values of our department, our university,&nbsp;and the UC system as a whole. Echoing the words of UC President Janet Napolitano, we \u201cremain absolutely&nbsp;committed to supporting all members of our community and adhering to UC\u2019s Principles Against Intolerance.\u201c We are&nbsp;concerned that some now face&nbsp;&nbsp;heightened risk of harassment and as a department we condemn discrimination,&nbsp;marginalization, and violence against any member of our community. We affirm our commitment to the diverse&nbsp;student population of UCR and offer our support and protection to students who feel vulnerable, due to their&nbsp;immigration status, gender or nationality. &nbsp; The current political climate has only sharpened our convictions about the&nbsp;imperatives of studying histories and diverse visual cultures. &nbsp;Critical thinking, factual argumentation, and lucid debate&nbsp;are even more vital in a climate of derisive language, images, symbols, and behaviors. &nbsp;One cannot underestimate the&nbsp;value of understanding history in shaping our collective future.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of the History of Art Has Unanimously Approved the Following Statement in Response to the Presidential Election of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/the-department-of-the-history-of-art-has-unanimously-approved-the-following-statement-in-response-to-the-presidential-election-of-2016\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}