{"id":11573,"date":"2020-06-03T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:10:20","slug":"from-the-vaults-the-politics-of-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-the-politics-of-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: The Politics of Memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Michelle Codrington-Rogers\/ Margaret O&#8217;Callaghan\/ Rahul Rao<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the recording <a href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_events\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20190129_1830_thePoliticsOfMemorials.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8p8q6vhmvu4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Memorials have been fiercely debated in recent times. What roles do memorials play in a society and how do these acts of remembering contribute to a community\u2019s sense of identity? What gets remembered and what forgotten, and who decides? When, if ever, should memorials be removed?\u00a0We discuss past and present controversies around public memorializing, from Ground Zero\u00a0and Confederate monuments\u00a0to Rhodes Must Fall and Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Michelle Codrington-Rogers<\/span><br \/>\nActivist &amp;\u00a0Junior Vice-President,\u00a0NASUWT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pure.qub.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/persons\/margaret-ocallaghan(220f07e7-62d2-4ac9-8d7d-b56a49d55ad5).html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Margaret O&#8217;Callaghan<\/a><br \/>\nReader in History, Queen\u2019s University Belfast<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/staff\/staff50829.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rahul Rao<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Politics, SOAS<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/sarah-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Fine<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Philosophy, KCL &amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people and events are remembered by communities, others forgotten. Who and what ought to be remembered? Should some memorials be removed? And who should decide? Michelle Codrington-Rogers, Margaret O&#8217;Callaghan, and Rahul Rao explore these questions and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-11573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/1-ppj.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-30F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13724,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions\/13724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}