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Memorial Interventions: Negotiating Paths through Complicated Pasts

Abstract The David Buchan Lecture 2018 examines a range of small memorial interventions from occupational culture to Holocaust markers. Rather than working with large figures on pedestals, they are designed to subtly disrupt everyday perception. What are the motives behind such initiatives? Who pays for them? What kinds of materials are they made of and how do they seek to imprint their message onto present and future generations? Drawing from American and German cases, similar questions present themselves: who is entitled to decide what should be publicly remembered and in what form? How effective are small memorial interventions in stirring public discussion of the past? How does intentional memorial activity compare to actual evidence of historical events in everyday life?