Moira Pérez: Monuments, Vandalism, and Colonial Temporality

Описание: Monuments, Vandalism, and Colonial Temporality.

by Dr. Moira Pérez
at 22 May 2023 at the University of Vienna

LECTURE SERIES
"About Monument Practices"
organised by the Chair of Public History at the University of Vienna

CONTENT
The most recent upsurge in interventions on contested monuments is characterized by giving center stage to Western European colonialism and its deadly consequences around the world. Apart from traditional debates around heritage and historical change, these tendencies opened other discussions (which in several contexts were long overdue) about coloniality and the participation of Western countries in the economy of slave trade and extractivism. Centering coloniality as a key element in the past and the present and in the bridges between them, such as monuments – allows us to reassess our notions of temporality – and how it is expressed in historical narratives and in the public space. In this conference, Dr. Perez will analyze the temporalities involved in monuments, particularly those expressing some form of Western European colonialism, and will consider what the recent wave of iconoclasm can teach us about colonial temporality.

THE GUEST LECTURER
Moira Pérez is Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina. Her work focuses on the interplay between identity and violence (including epistemic violence), and brings together contributions of narrativist philosophies of history, queer theory, and decolonial and postcolonial studies, among others. In relation to the representation of the past, she has worked on narratives of progress in social movements, agency-building through historical representations of marginalized groups, and pinkwashing through official histories. Her current project addresses contested monuments, particularly those related to coloniality, and the debates surrounding how and who should deal with them. She is based in Buenos Aires.

TO LEARN MORE
about the Guest Lectures about Monument Practices: https://publichistoryinvienna.com/gue...

Video recording and video editing: Iman Elghonemi