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Join us tomorrow, October 27 for Monuments to Nostalgia at 12:00 p.m. Pacific.
Monuments to Nostalgia
Friday, Oct 27, 12 p.m.
Zoom webinar
Speakers
Jacob Dlamini Professor of History, Princeton University
Vladimir Kulić Professor and David Lingle Faculty Fellow, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University
Trinidad Rico Associate Professor and Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies, Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Moderator
Laura Wittman Associate Professor of French and Italian, Stanford University
About the Event
If monuments articulate ideologies in physical space and material form, it follows that regime change can rapidly elevate the visibility of certain monuments, making them obvious flashpoints for protests or other public statements. Monuments, by which we understand intentional interventions in collective memory, typically offer shortcuts to political symbolism. The period since the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 provides no shortage of examples, such as the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad in 2003. The persistent use of WWII memorials in the former Yugoslavia's 'concrete utopia' offers telling engagements with pasts that are articulated in various media. The deep history of the topic might also include the monuments of the ancient Egyptians or Romans, or iconoclasm in the Byzantine and Muslim worlds.
Monuments to Nostalgia takes a comparative approach to monuments around the globe in contexts of political change. We are especially interested in the temporalities implicit in commemorative constructions – the ways in which structures may look both backward and forward, while engaging concerns of the present moment. What are we to make of the (often contested) persistence of physical monuments, even as the politics around them changes radically? Drawing inspiration from Svetlana Boym's The Future of Nostalgia (2001), we will explore the distinction between restorative nostalgia and reflective nostalgia. On this model, monuments are part of a broader conversation about re-encountering particular pasts, and the social imaginaries and politics linked to such engagements. What might transregional comparison yield? What might monumentality mean in our own times?
About the Global Dialogues Series
Global Dialogues is a series hosted by Stanford Global Studies that is designed to foster fresh thinking on critical global issues and develop new approaches to grapple with the complexities of our interconnected and constantly changing world. Each quarter, we focus on a different topic under one of three larger themes: Crises, Connections, and Concepts.
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