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April 25, 2025 I 1:30-3:30pm

Panel 3: Contesting History and Memory

Remembrance of the past, inscribed in textbooks, museums and monuments, has in large part always been a political act. In our contemporary world, states and social forces have increasingly challenged established historical narratives by making appeals to identity and grievance. This panel engages in questions of contested memory and remembrance in 21st century India, China and the US, including historical events that have been subject to reinterpretation and censorship, the legacies of colonialism and its impacts on collective memory, and the reframing of history and heritage in schools and museums to transmit new forms of collective memory.

Moderator:

Jonathan Bach: Professor of Global Studies, The New School

Panelists: 

Jane Burbank: Professor Emerita of History & Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University

Prasenjit Duara: Oscar L. Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University

Manu Goswami: Associate Professor of History, New York University

Claire Potter: Professor Emerita of History, The New School for Social Research