The Center for Human Rights and Democracy and the Atlanta Global Studies Center are happy to announce: Sites of Reckoning Symposium: Memorials, Museums & Fractured Truth(s) in the Aftermaths of Mass Violence.  

This two-day symposium scheduled for March 5-6, 2020 at GSU will bring together a distinguished group of U.S. and international scholars to consider memorials and museums as important sites for truth telling and accounting for past violence. It will also explore how these sites narrate violent histories in particular ways—privileging some truths over others—and with distinct intents. The ongoing controversies about removing Confederate statues across the US – and especially in the South – are obvious examples of these dilemmas. In addition, we have planned an optional field trip on Saturday, March 7, 2020 to visit The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, Alabama.

For more information and to RSVP, please click here!