Talk
Monuments and Colonialism
Event information
Date & location
From 3:00pm CET
Virtual
What place do colonial statues occupy within conceptions of Europe’s cultural heritage?
This Una Europa Seed Funding-supported panel event will explore:
- How did statues become a central focus point of activism and why is this appearing across Europe and globally right now?
- What type of colonial heritages do specific monuments commemorate?
- What narratives do they convey and hide?
- How/why are some of them contested, while others are not?
This event will be live-streamed and open to the public. No registration is required - simply join the webcast using this link.
Programme
Opening
Janne Lahti (University of Helsinki)
Papers
- What “Must Fall”?: Monuments vs Historical memory - Dr. Hephzibah Israel (University of Edinburgh)
- Are all colonial statues the same? Reflections on a sentence by Frantz Fanon- Prof. Bertrand Tillier (University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Followed by panel discussion
- Panellists: Hephzibah Israel, Bertrand Tillier, Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna)
- Moderators: Janne Lahti and Josephine Hoegaerts (University of Helsinki)