City Talk: Contested Places, Contested Pasts: Race, Place and the Politics of Memory in Contemporary Budapest

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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Ken Foote : "The focus of my presentation is the way sites of the Holocaust, racial oppression, and political violence have been memorialized in Budapest's cityscape. Some sites have developed into major memorials, while others remain almost invisible. My interest is exploring the public, often highly political debates surrounding these sites and why they have been treated so differently. In part the debates revolve around race, violence and political repression, but they also raise even larger issues about how many events of the twentieth century are remembered and commemorated, from the First World War through the fall of communism in 1989 and beyond. The complexities of memory and meaning are particularly acute in nations like Hungary with complex political histories that spill across national borders."

Ken is the Professor and Department Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut.