Asante, Barby and Sobers, Shawn. 2023. 'Whose Memorials? with Barby Asante and Shawn Sobers'. In: #ReconstructionWork: Whose Memorials?. Stuart Hall Foundation, United Kingdom 31 May 2023. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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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?

For this event in the #ReconstructionWork series, the Stuart Hall Foundation welcomed artists and educators Barby Asante and 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 produced in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE).

Supported by Arts Council England.

This event took place online.
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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Talk)
Related URLs:	Organisation Organisation
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 31 May 2023 Accepted
Event Location:	Stuart Hall Foundation, United Kingdom
Date range:	31 May 2023
Item ID:	35105
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2024 11:26
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2024 22:43
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35105

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