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Join us on Thursday for our next
Designs on the Future webinar

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” (James Baldwin)

Who Owns the Past?

Thursday, February 25, 2021
17.00 – 18.30 CET

 

 
Contested monuments and memorials have hit headlines around the world in recent years. These pillars of the public landscape
can reinforce historical legacies and trauma, and are increasingly disputed by people working to end oppression and build
just and equitable societies. Yet campaigns in public spaces have split opinion and created an easy target for politicization
and media frenzy.

Is res-cripting the commemorative landscape essential to tackle underlying structural and historical injustices or could
it divert attention from today’s inequities if seen as an end in itself? How can responsible leaders advance memory, healing
and reconciliation in deeply-divided societies? Whose voices need to be heard, and what can we learn by sharing experience
and innovation across borders?

Part of Salzburg Global’s Designs on the Future initiative, our debate will bring together leaders on the frontline
of community and systems change and explore case studies from South Africa and Korea, followed by open discussion with
the virtual audience. Everyone is welcome for this inclusive conversation