Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution
Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Comm
"Confronting the past" has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as a litmus tes
The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were fired from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza in downt
Against the backdrop of two recent socio-political developments—the shift from the Obama to the Trump administration and the surge in nationalist and populist