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Week 11

This document discusses various topics related to monuments and collective memory, including different types of graveyards, individual experiences researching monuments, the memorialization of controversial historical figures, and debates around Confederate symbols. It poses questions about who gets to decide what is remembered and how, what is at stake in celebrating problematic heritages, and potential solutions to counter dominant narratives.

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Week 11

This document discusses various topics related to monuments and collective memory, including different types of graveyards, individual experiences researching monuments, the memorialization of controversial historical figures, and debates around Confederate symbols. It poses questions about who gets to decide what is remembered and how, what is at stake in celebrating problematic heritages, and potential solutions to counter dominant narratives.

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Controversies of

Memory
Dr. Will Kurlinkus
Reminder
Paper Proposal
Due
Wednesday
Individual
Monuments:
Remembering Death
• Memento Mori: Graveyard in a
central place in town—
remember death.
• Garden Paradise: Graveyards
where you would think about life
and death as natural. Beautiful
monuments, flowers, benches,
picnics, etc.
• The Lawnscape: Flat graveyards
where you don’t see anything at
all.
What did you find out
about your monument?
Do Monuments
Matter? Especially
if you don’t pay
attention to
them?
Acoma Pueblo:
Sky City
Onate’s Foot
• Who wants whom to remember what, why, and how?
• What does this piece teach us about the nature of
collective memory?
• How was this memory of Onate forgotten (his
murderousness and banishment)?
• What is at stake here?
• What does it mean to celebrate heritage if that
heritage is at once marginalized and terrible?
• About the act of memorialization?
• What do monuments do?
• What solutions are there?
• counter-memory is an individual act of resistance, to
relentlessly question the veracity of "history as true
knowledge” (Pritika Chowdhry).
Numbe Whageh:
Albuquerque’s
Cuarto
Centenario
Memorial
The Confederate Flag
• Mississippi’s state flag included as part of it the
confederate flag.
• The University of Mississippi/Ole Miss used it as
their flag (and still have the rebels as a mascot)
• What does celebrating the confederacy and the
south through the confederate flag rhetorically do
to people of color? That students of colors’ tuition
was paying for these flags?
• What does the confederate flag mean? Is it racist?
Is it racist if it’s used by racists?
• After years of protest it was money/college
football that started the change (the SEC refused
to have tournament football games played there).
Is Removing a
Monument Forgetting
History?
+ What about the
pledge of allegiance?
+ What about “state
loyalty oaths?”
+ Should we
automatically respect
tradition?
+ What does it mean to
be patriotic/
unpatriotic?

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