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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Rick Crownshaw <[log in to unmask]> Dear All, We're happy to announce the third in the Cultural Memory Seminar Series for the year 2007-08: "Rethinking museums, memorials and monuments" Saturday 10th May, 2008, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Room 274, Stewart House (adjacent to Senate House, University of London). The speakers: Dr Mary Stevens (University College London), "Towards the hybrid museum? The aesthetics and politics of the memory of immigration in the Cité nationale de l´histoire de l´immigration". Dr Beverley Butler (University College London), "Heritage and Well- being". Professor Bill Niven, (Nottingham Trent University) "On the dangers of the abstract in Holocaust memorials". Dr Richard Benjamin (Head of the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool), "The International Slavery Museum: issues and concerns". Lunch (own arrangements) is provisionally scheduled for 1 p.m. All are welcome and there is no fee. PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. For details on finding the Institute, please see the IGRS website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/ The Cultural Memory Seminar Series is co-hosted by the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (University of London) and the Raphael Samuel Centre (University of East London). It is organised by Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths, University of London), Carrie Hamilton (Roehampton University) and Susannah Radstone (University of East London). Please contact Rick ([log in to unmask]), Carrie ([log in to unmask]) or Susannah ([log in to unmask]) for further information.