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Announcing the New Transforming Cultural Heritage Series

May 19 2022
We’re thrilled to be publishing this timely new series that focuses on contemporary calls to decolonize and indigenize museums, tear down monuments, and repatriate ancestors. Read our Q&A below with the series editors to find out more about the Transforming Cultural Heritage series.Can you d
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The Problem of Persistence: What Oldenburg’s Critique of Monumentality Offers Today’s Discussions

Feb 11 2021
By Katherine Smith, author of The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar AmericaThis guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.Over the last few years, I have been following the developments in Ameri
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From Constantinople to the COVID-Era: Why Rituals Matter

Dec 01 2020
By Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, author of Constantinople: Ritual, Violence, and Memory in the Making of a Christian Imperial CapitalRitualized occasions—holy days and holidays, funerals and weddings, graduations and retirements, conferences, protests, and elections—are crucial for communities.
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