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Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History - Book Presentation with Alex von Tunzelmann

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Monday, 08 May 2023, 18:00 CET
Online via ZOOM

In 2020, there was a wave of iconoclasm - the destruction of statues - led by the Black Lives Matter movement. There had been such waves before, during the English Reformation, French Revolution, the fall of Communism and so on.

What was unprecedented in 2020 was that it was global: from the US and Canada to the UK and Belgium, and across the world including Bangladesh, Columbia, South Africa and New Zealand. The political backlash was intense. Alex von Tunzelmann looks at the fascinating history of statues: why they are put up, what they mean, how their meanings shift, and why they may be pulled down (or put back up again). She asks what we should do with unwanted statues, and how to fill those empty plinths.

SPEAKER
Alex von Tunzelmann, historian and writer

COORDINATOR
Danilo Scholz, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)

PARTICIPATION
Participation online via Zoom by following the link posted on this website: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/lecture-alex-von-tunzelmann/

ORGANISER
An event organised by the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen

About the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI):
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Germany, is an interdisciplinary research centre following the tradition of international Institutes for Advanced Study. In its role as an inter-university institution connecting the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Technological University Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen, the institute works together with researchers and scientists from its neighbouring universities as well as other partners from the federal state NRW and places in- and outside of Germany. Within the Ruhr area, the KWI is a place to share and discuss the questions and results of ambitious research with interested parties from the city and the greater region. Currently, work at the KWI focuses on the following areas: “cultural studies of science and science policy making”, “sociology of literature and culture”, “science communication”, “visual literacy” and a “teaching lab”. Projects in the established research field “culture of communication”, as well as individual projects, will be continued.

www.kulturwissenschaften.de/en

Weitere Informationen:
https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/lecture-alex-von-tunzelmann/ The event on the KWI website

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