Update available (18 Jan 2022): poster and programme of this online Workshop.
Join us online 21st January, 2022, 10:00-18:00 (CET). Link for registration: https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/Monuments
When the past is contested, monuments are the first to fall. The workshop ‘CAPTURED BY THE PAST: MONUMENTS. CONFLICTS. LAW’ aims to map the controversies around such monuments, as well as the memory conflicts and ‘memory wars’ of which these monuments are the symbols. Over the centuries, totalitarian regimes removed monuments they did not agree with. Should democracies then follow this path?
Following topics will be discussed:
• Monuments from the cultural heritage and human rights perspectives: is there a right to destroy?
• Monuments as government speech: what are the limits?
• Monuments and the rule of law: what are the legal standards for memory policies and public commemorative practices in a democracy?
Convenors:
Dr Alina Cherviatsova, Senior Researcher and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University.
Prof Dr Yves Haeck, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University.
Prof Dr Clara Burbano-Herrera, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University.
Prof Dr Eva Brems, Professor of Human Rights Law and Head of the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University.
The workshop is organized within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research project ‘To Destroy or to Preserve? Monuments, Law and Democracy in Europe’ (MELoDYE) hosted by Ghent University. The MELoDYE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101032010.
