At our first symposium, January 25, 2021, we launched the call for the establishment of a new common commemorative day: Let us celebrate and commemorate "a century of decolonization", in German: die Hundertjahrfeier der Entkolonialisierung.
Vier maanden na ons eerste symposium opent het Goethe Instituut te Amsterdam in een Corona-opstelling van maximaal 22 bezoekers zijn deuren voor de Nederlandse première van François Lagarde's monumentale CENTENAIRE-film "Le rouge et le gris" (2017). Het levenswerk van de overleden cineast uit Frankrijk gaat over Ernst Jünger (1895-1998). Het...
An English-language transcript of the Aufa100 founding manifesto is expected to be published in the United States. "The sleeping Beauty of Commemorative Culture - Decolonizing Versailles" manuscript was proofread by Veronica Burgstaller (GB) and Doris Moorhead (GB). In the run up to the publication, feel free to contact us.
Conference with Aufa100's founder and director Peter de Bourgraaf:
A few months after the end of Trump's Presidency, Sabin Howard's Centennial sculpture will be unveiled at a site just around the corner of Capitol Building. It commemorates the only war and manifold sacrifice that hasn't been dedicated a monumental status in the U.S. capital so far.