INQ-300 | Memorials, Monuments, & Memory

Full Title: Memorials, Monuments, and Memory

Topic Description:

This course addresses the ways in which people, in various times and places, interact with public monuments and memorials. By focusing on examples from different parts of the world, the class broadly asks how memory about the past gets constructed, challenged, and reconfigured through public events and art. The course contends that no monument or memorial ever exists in a political, social, or cultural vacuum and that their meaning and utility change over time. Students in this course will directly engage with artists and critics who are currently producing work that expands the ways in which we think about monuments, memorials, and memory.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: October 2021