#  Monuments and Counter-Monuments: ReVista Launch 

 



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 **September 30, 2021** 

 01:00PM - 02:15PM EDT 

 



 

   
For a recording of this event, please [click here](https://youtu.be/UBZ7y7fuj-8).

 The launch of the Spring-Summer 2021 issue [Monuments and Counter-Monuments](https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/current-issue/) takes a look at what monuments represent and what their legacy means. It also examines a trend towards counter-monuments, an effort to seek other ways to create memorials. Panelists span the globe from Australia to Argentina, from London to Bogota.

 Speakers: **Paolo Vignolo**, Professor, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá; **James E. Young**, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst; **Andreas Huyssen**, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University; **Jeffrey Schnapp**, Professor, Harvard University; **Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd**, Professor, University of Tampa (Florida); **Carlos Abreu Mendoza**, Professor, University of Texas; **Yaneira Wilson Wetter**, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Architecture School Paris Val-de-Seine; **Tomás Straka**, Director of the Historical Research Institute, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Caracas); **Jessica Velasquez Urribarri**, Ph.D. candidate, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; **Rafael David Sulbarán**, journalist and editor, Diario la Opinión, Cúcuta, Colombia; **Roberto Conduru**, Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas; **Emma Evelyn Roberts**, Head of History of Art and Museum Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, England; **Augusta Saraiva**, Brazilian-born Washington-based journalist; **Maria Mercedes Martínez Milantchi**, Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research, British Museum; **Alice Samson**, Lecturer, University of Leicester, England; **Laura Osorio Sannuks**, Head of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research, British Museum; **Rafael Cardoso**, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Instituto de Artes)/research associate at Freie Universität Berlin (Lateinamerika-Institut); **Michael Angel Vázquez** Ph.D. student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; **Matylda Figlerowicz**, Junior Fellow en the Harvard Society of Fellows; **Marjorie Agosín**, Professor, Wellesley College; **Margarita Saona**, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago; **Katherine Hite**, Professor, Vassar College; **Heriberto Erquicia**, Professor, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain; **Kathryn Sampeck**, Professor, Illinois State University, 2016 DRCLAS Visiting Scholar; **Mónica Szurmuk**, professor, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina; **Antonio Martorell**, Artist-in-Residence, University of Puerto Rico, 2008 DRCLAS Visiting Scholar; **Lucas Mertehikian**, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Romance Languages and Literature; Graduate Student Associate  
Moderated by: **Diana Sorensen**, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University



 

 



 

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