THE PEOPLE’S PARK
The Sensory Experience of People’s Park Protests, 1967 to 1975
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�Associate Professor of History
University of Utah, Asia Campus (Korea)
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�Associate Professor of History
University of Utah Asia
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�University of Utah Asia
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Map of Berkeley’s People’s Park, one of 12 in the area, known as the People’s Park, located at Haste and Bowditch
Spectacality/
Embodiment:
July 2020 - Portland Black Lives Matter Protest
Est. 1969 - Berkeley’s People’s Park
*race & gender
Spectacality:
Photo of Berkeley’s People’s Park from Alan Copeland’s photo collection The People’s Park
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�Associate Professor of History
University of Utah Asia
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Tactile Sensations:
Berkeley’s People’s Park
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�Associate Professor of History
University of Utah Asia
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Tactile Sensations:
Wendy Schlesinger and Liane Chu at Berkeley’s People’s Park
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�University of Utah Asia
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Tactile Sensations:
Photo of bulldozer takeover at Chicano Park, Chicano Park Museum
Sounds of Labor:
Studs Terkel at Poor People’s Park in Chicago
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�Associate Professor of History
University of Utah Asia
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Medium for collaboration: Ex) Peoples Stews
Film, “Let a Thousand Parks Bloom,” Leonard Lipton
Tastes and Flavors:
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.�Assistant Professor of History
University of Utah Asia
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
Transnational Sensory Collages:
Two photos from James Rector People’s Park, Madison, WI
Wisconsin
Historical Society
Embodiment & Representation:
Murals of women at Chicano Park (right, Carlotta Hernandez Terry poses in front of her work revised by men)
Building Bridges to New/Old/Distant Worlds through Sensory Play
Visuality of Ephemera:
Poster protesting the closure of Berkeley’s People’s Park
Kera Lovell, Ph.D.
@keralovell�Kera.lovell@utah.edu�www.keralovell.com
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