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With the launch of the Monuments Project – a significant new multi-year commitment to reshaping our country’s commemorative landscape – the Mellon Foundation is broadening our national conversation about public monuments and memorials. 

In this panel discussion on the topic, Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, Monument Lab Director Paul M. Farber, USC University Professor, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Vanderbilt University Writer-in-Residence and author of the noteworthy New York Times op-ed “My Body is a Confederate Monument,” Caroline Randall Williams will address provocative questions about the making of our commemorative spaces, including what a monument is, how myth-making has shaped the process of memorializing, and why new commemorations will expand the American Story. 

We hope you will the Mellon Foundation for their powerful conversation and Q&A.