Panel “Difficult Heritage and ‘Nature’” accepted to the 10th Annual MSA conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina

28 July 2026

Photo: Memory Studies Association

Our panel “Difficult Heritage and ‘Nature’: Greening Toxic Monuments – Encouraging Resilience or Forgetting?” has been accepted to the 10th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (“Memory and Democracy”) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (28 July−01 August, 2026). Margit Kern will chair the panel. Contributing to the panel will be Carla Guimarães Hermann (“Covering, building, mending: the multiple uses of nature in the Valongo Wharf and its surroundings”), Johanna Spanke (“Planting resilience: Transforming the shadow of the colonial past through collective action in Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Unshadowed Land’”), Carolina Vanegas Carrasco ("Historicity and Memory in the ‘White City’: the Statue of Sebastián de Belalcazar in the Colombian Social Upheaval") and Hannah Lahusen ("Cultivating Counter-Memories in Santiago de Chile: Guerrilla Gardening as a subversive strategy of resisting difficult heritage"). Further information and the full program will follow once published.