Making Monuments Matter in 21st Century Democracies
Tanja Schult and Tim Cole will give an open guest lecture at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City 10 October.
CUNY Grad Center in New York City.
About the lecture
Making Monuments Matter in 21st Century Democracies: Creating Sites for Critical Discourse, Social Justice, and Community Building
What do monuments do in democracies, what do those who create and commission them expect of these works, and how do people perceive and react towards them? How can monuments be active tools to make democracies more democratic?
More information on the Cuny Graduate Center website
Tanja Schult, Associate professor of Art History at Stockholm University, and Tim Cole, Professor of Social History at University of Bristol, work together in the research project Rethink and Reload – Monuments in 21st Century Democracies, financed by the Swedish Research Council.
Last updated: 2025-12-16
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics