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Commemoration, Monuments and Public Memory

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Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
02 August 2005 to 04 August 2005

This inter-disciplinary conference will bring together scholars in the burgeoning field of memory studies to explore the impact of commemorations and monuments on the cultural, political and social landscape. Papers will be tabled from social historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, art historians, sociologists and psychologists. Conference organisers have sought contributions relating to a wide range of periods and places, and innovative methodological approaches. Themes include (but are not limited to):

  • Monuments and Commemoration as sites of political contest;
  • Commemoration, Monuments and trauma;
  • Art and Commemoration;
  • Portraiture, biography and public memory;
  • Monuments as sacred sites;
  • Monuments, public memory and national identity;
  • Re-enactment and commemoration. For further information, CLICK HERE.

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