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SUMMARY:City Seminar: Tim Edensor: Commemorating the Past in Stone: Destab
 ilizing Melbourne's Memoryscape - Tim Edensor\, Manchester Metropolitan Un
 iversity
DTSTART:20181023T163000Z
DTEND:20181023T180000Z
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CONTACT:Tanvi
DESCRIPTION:*Commemorating the Past in Stone: Destabilizing Melbourne's Me
 moryscape*\nTim Edensor\, Manchester Metropolitan University \n\nThis talk
  explores the multiple ways in which stone has been deployed to mark the p
 ast. It will look at how a specific area of Melbourne's urban realm has be
 en assigned as a site of commemoration\, featuring a plethora of colonial 
 and military memorials\, elements that also recur throughout the centre of
  the city. Tim will then discuss how the presence of  other stony forms of
  commemoration increasingly supplement and talk back to these archetypal m
 onuments to war and elite men\, especially through the recent installation
  of Aboriginal artworks and memorials. We may also contest these clichéd 
 commemorative forms\, he will argue\, by paying attention to the numerous 
 ways in which stone is also haunted by traces of the past\, whether geolog
 ical\, environmental\, industrial or mundane.\n\nThe City Seminar\, co-con
 vened by the Department of Geography along with the Department of Architec
 ture\, explores the theme of ‘Infrastructures of Memory’ this year. A 
 diverse line-up of speakers – including geographers\, anthropologists\, 
 architects\, artists and activists – will examine the various techniques
 \, technologies\, rituals\, performances and materialities of memory and r
 emembrance\, and how they reinforce or subvert prevailing power relations.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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