In conjunction with the UMS presentation of Bill T. Jones's Fondly Do We Hope”¦ Fervently Do We Pray, a dance meditation on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, Arts of Citizenship and UMS sponsors a participatory discussion on the role of the arts, culture, and politics in the shaping of public memory of President Lincoln, the civil war, and the end of slavery, featuring faculty members from the U-M Center for African and African American Studies, the Program in American Culture, the History department, and the Dance department. Participating faculty will include Kristin Hass, Assistant Professor of American Culture and author of Carried to the Wall: American Memory and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1998), Martha Jones, Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies and author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 (2007), and Robin Wilson, Associate Professor of Dance, choreographer and dance historian.