Redefining Monuments: Materialist Memory Theories and Radical Heritage Practices

11 December 2025, 16:00 – 17.30 UTC

This Book Launch will feature a moderated discussion exploring the production, conservation, and destruction of monuments. ‘Redefining Monuments: Materialist Memory Theories and Radical Heritage Practices’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to modern debates on heritage, memory, and public space. It offers a radical and unconventional definition of the monument, critiques cultural heritage, investigates memorial landscapes, and examines conflicts surrounding statues. Additionally, it challenges the idea of iconoclasm as purely negative, emphasising its historical legitimacy, questioning how some monuments have a fundamental role in sustaining colonial, patriarchal, and class-based structures. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A session.

 

CONVENOR:
Britt Baillie (Aarhus University)

PANELISTS:
Dan Hicks (Oxford University),
Daniel Palacios González (UNED, Madrid),
José María Durán Medraño (Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisle, Germany)
Gal Kirn (University of Nova Gorica)

For more information, please visit the MSA website!