Discussion: Contested Commemorations – Reckoning with Monuments and Memorials

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About the Event
Monuments and memorials—the statues, plaques, markers and place names that commemorate people and events—are how a country tells and teaches its story.

What story does the commemorative landscape of the United States tell? How can we express, elevate and preserve the stories of those who have often been denied historical recognition, and how might we foster a more complete telling of who we are as a nation?
These questions and more will be explored in a roundtable discussion with leading scholars from across the nation. Drawing on their contributions to the upcoming volume Contested Commemorations: Public Memory in the South and West, they will suggest potential guiding principles for contemporary memorials and consider what it means to commemorate something in this day and age.

Participants include:
Stephen Aron, The Autry Museum
Kathleen Belew, Northwestern University
Emily Bingham, Bellarmine University
Karen Cox, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Hilary Green, Davidson College
Ariela Gross, University of California at Los Angeles
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez, University of California at Los Angeles
Martha S. Jones, Johns Hopkins University
Sarah Pearsall, Johns Hopkins University
Julie Reed, Pennsylvania State University
Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico
Amanda Wixon, The Autry Museum