Join us for the launch of Prof. Dr. Dan Hick’s book ‘Every Monument Will Fall’ on Friday, 23 May 2025, at 4pm at the Global Heritage Lab. Prof. Hick’s will share his thoughts on monumentality, endurance, and public memory with a talk on ‘Crumbling is not an Instant’s Act’. He is joined by discussants Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter.  

The book launch is part of University of Bonn’s Heritage Week, which takes place from 19 to 23 May.

Hybrid and open event
Friday, 23 May 2025, Book promotion: 3:40 – 4:00 pm, Presentation and discussion: 4:00 – 6:00 pm
“Crumbling is not an Instant’s Act”: thoughts on monumentality, endurance, and public memory
Presenter: Dan Hicks
Discussants: Julia Binter and Sophia Labadi

Book Launch of the book ‘Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting’

Venue: Global Heritage Lab
Seminar Room, 1st floor, Poststr. 26, 53111 Bonn
Online registration: Zoom

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We are pleased to invite you to the first Heritage Week at the University of Bonn, which will take place from 19 to 23 May. During this week, different institutes of the University of Bonn invite scholars to open up conversations and critical reflections on various approaches to heritage in a global context. The proposed agenda includes discussions on nature-culture and sustainability, indigenous heritage and cultural landscapes in the Americas and Africa, as well as on the coloniality of statues and monuments. 

Join us as we journey through the past while looking towards alternative and sustainable futures together. We look forward to welcoming you for an inspiring Heritage Week!

For more information, please check the project page or download the programme here

Co-organised by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), Department of Anthropology of the Americas, Global Heritage Lab (GHL)-Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) 5: Present Pasts, and the Center for Development Research (ZEF)