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Monumental Histories
October 24, 2018 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
FreeThe Center’s Flora Cassen is speaking at this campus event:
MONUMENTAL HISTORIES
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Time: 4:30-6pm
Place: Room 1005, FedEx Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., UNC Chapel Hill
Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A on the challenges of historical memory and memorialization from different sites around the world, including early twentieth-century France, early modern and postwar Germany, and contemporary South Africa and China. The purpose of the panel is to provide broader global and historical contexts for situating on-going campus debates surrounding the issue of Silent Sam.
Speakers include:
Daniel Sherman, Lineberger Distinguished Professor, UNC Department of Art & Art History/Department of History
“When Monuments Were Meant to Heal: France after World War I”
Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, UNC Department of History
“Goodbye Hitler, Goodbye Lenin”
Lauren Jarvis, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of History
“Contested Monuments in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Flora Cassen, Associate Professor, UNC Department of History
“Anti-Jewish Artwork from Early Modern Europe: A History without Memory”
Michelle King, Associate Professor, UNC Department of History
“Memory without Monuments: Cultural Revolution Restaurants in Contemporary China”
Sponsored by the UNC Department of History and the UNC Curriculum in Global Studies
