New Thinking: Memorials and Commemoration

Arts & Ideas

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A rainbow monument in Warsaw which has now been destroyed. The response of residents in Belfast to an exhibition commemorating the Somme and the Easter Rising. Dr Martin Zebracki works on the Queer Memorials project which looks at memorials in Amsterdam, Warsaw and New York. Professor Keith Lilley is a geographer who has worked on a series of mapping projects linked to the anniversary of the First World War. New Generation Thinker and researcher of suffragette history, Dr Naomi Paxton, hosts the conversation.

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0:34.7	Commemoration, interpretation and misinterpretation. How do public monuments and personal histories
0:41.7	interact? I'm Naomi Paxton and I'm a performer and academic, engage in archival research around
0:47.7	the suffrage campaign and World War I. In today's new thinking episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast,
0:53.6	I'll be asking,
0:54.9	how do we commemorate queer lives? Dr Martin Zabraki from the University of Leeds has been looking
1:00.0	at memorials in a range of countries. And what does the commemoration of World War I look like
1:05.1	in Northern Ireland? Professor Keith Lilly teaches at Queens, Belfast. Keith, you were involved
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