When Regimes Fall Their Statues Fall With Them: The birth, life and death of Lenin in the Republic Square of Yerevan, Armenia

This thesis examines the complex process of memory making and unmaking during Armenia’s early, mid and post-transition periods as a Soviet republic. By positioning the statue of Vladimir Lenin, which once stood at the central square of its capital city, as a focal element of the discourse, this thesis uses the analysis of the bodily interplay...

Barca Nostra: The tragedy of a monument: An analysis on memory and its spectacularization

Monuments for Reconciliation: How spatial interventions can create circumstances for reconciliation in the Israel-Palestine conflict

The Israel-Palestine conflict is a traumatic experience that continues to violate the underlying basic structures of the Israeli and Palestinian societies. The cultural differences of commemoration of this conflict complicate coming to a stable convergence of a single render of the traumatic events. To date, research has been limited to the...