PANEL 11: Monuments about traumatic events: graphic sources.

The monuments of traumatic events, like graphic sources, are external memory devices. They express the memory of the event and the will to remember it, establishing a dialogue with the memory and collective identity of the society that promotes them, the traumatic events and their representation.

Graphic sources go beyond the monument and the memory, as they are integrated into cultural and commercial circuits that internationalize their impact, whether through the press, postcards and/or photography and travel literature, etc.

Following this scheme, the panel aims to address the relationships between  Collective traumatic episodes, the «monumentalization» of their memory and their graphic sources. Th at is why we call on professionals in the study of memory and identity and graphic documentation to discuss this and propose methodologies aimed to the correct reading of these relationships, either through particular case studies or theoretical foundation.