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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/monuments-decolonized-algerias-fren
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SUMMARY:Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Book panel discussion with Sysan Slyomovics\, Zeynep Celik and 
 Ralph Ghoche\, introduced by Emmanuelle Saada\n\n"Statuomania" overtook Al
 geria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monum
 ents placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But follo
 wing Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962\, these monuments took on 
 different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France\, legally or cland
 estinely. Today\, in both Algeria and France\, people are moving and remov
 ing\, vandalizing and preserving this contested\, yet shared monumental he
 ritage.\n\nSusan Slyomovics follows the afterlives of French-built war mem
 orials in Algeria and those taken to France in her new book\, Monuments De
 colonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (2024\, Stanford Universit
 y Press). Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews in both countries\
 , she analyzes the colonial nostalgia\, dissonant heritage\, and ongoing d
 ecolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art. Her book offers a fres
 h aesthetic take on the increasingly global move to fell monuments that ce
 lebrate settler colonial histories.\n\nSusan Slyomovics is Distinguished P
 rofessor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages &amp\; Cultures at the
  University of California\, Los Angeles. Her previous books include The Ob
 ject of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998) and Ho
 w to Accept German Reparations (2014).\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by th
 e Maison Française\, Department of Anthropology\, Middle East Institute\,
  and the Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation.
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LOCATION:Maison Française East Gallery\, Buell Hall\, Columbia University 
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