Shawn Sobers Shawn.Sobers@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Cultural Interdisciplinary Practice
#ReconstructionWork: Whose Memorials?
Sobers, Shawn; Asante, Barby
Authors
Barby Asante
Abstract
The state backlash against the mass protests for racial justice in June 2020 is well underway. A reaction punctuated by the recent passing of the Police, Crimes and Sentencing Bill, which has increased the maximum penalty for criminal damage to a memorial from three months to ten years. As the state rushes to protect its memorials, this conversation focuses on questions of memory to ask: who speaks for the past?
The Stuart Hall Foundation welcomes artists and educators Barby Asante and Professor Shawn Sobers to discuss the ways in which events can be remembered and misremembered, offering a space to interrogate the politics of memory.
‘#ReconstructionWork: Whose Memorials?’ is led by the Stuart Hall Foundation and produced in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).
Supported by Arts Council England.
Citation
Sobers, S., & Asante, B. (2022, May). #ReconstructionWork: Whose Memorials?. Presented at #ReconstructionWork, Online
Presentation Conference Type | Keynote |
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Conference Name | #ReconstructionWork |
Conference Location | Online |
Start Date | May 31, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Jun 7, 2022 |
Keywords | memorials, history, heritage, reconstruction, remembrance, memory |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9613012 |
Publisher URL | https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/reconstructionwork-whose-memorials/ |
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