Memorialization and Peace
Instructor: Ross Winegardner
Location: Pennsylvania
Source: Migrated from the Decentralized Memorialization curriculum project
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/new-national-monument-meaning-indigenous-tribes
Unit Overview
Essential Question: How is memorialization a tool for knowledge and reconciliation?
Why do people create memorials?
- Express a particular emotion (often grief, but not always)
- Educate a population
How can memorialization blend both past and present?
- Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain
- Never Again: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, A Tour with Wolf Blitzer
- Traveling While Black
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial
How can memorialization be used for reconciliation and healing?
- University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
- Lynching in America Report by Equal Justice Initiative
- Yazidi Genocide Memorial and Feel Like Me
Where do you see memorialization in your community?
How can memorialization be used locally to further knowledge and/or reconciliation?