In her study, “The Thread That Binds Together: Lidice, Oradour, Putten, and the Memory of World War II,” Madelon de Keizer offers a comparative analysis…
War memorials are produced through acts of new creation and by the destructive effects of war. This article examines how some churches, in their bombed…
Architecture has historically been used and explored as an aide-mémoire in various ways. Its role, however, in commemorating violent death is invariably complicated. In cases…
In the closing days of 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a visit to Honolulu, Hawai’i, to meet with US President Barack Obama, who…
The Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922, as it is known in Greek history, led to the displacement of 1.2 million Greeks from Turkey to Greece….
Sites of war and conflict, symbolizing collective loss and representing significant events in the history of a community, nation, or the world are sometimes elevated…
William Chapman is the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa(UHM). Educated at Columbia (M.S. in Historic Preservation) and…
