Democratic Uprisings and Their Monuments: A Global Perspective on the Period Since the 1970s

Date: 6-7 November 2026

Location: Reithaus im Park an der Ilm, Platz der Demokratie 5, 99423 Weimar

Organized by: 24th International Symposium of the Ettersberg Foundation in cooperation with the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, the Thuringian State Agency for Political Education, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies “Denkraum Ukraine” at the University of Regensburg, financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) through the funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA)

Language: German

The symposium program is available under the link. Registration 

With this year’s symposium, the Ettersberg Foundation, the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, the Thuringian State Agency for Political Education, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies “Denkraum Ukraine” are bridging the gap from Europe to the world: From a global comparative perspective, we will examine democratic uprisings since the 1970s and their memorialization.

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Photo credit: Sculpture at the 18 May National Cemetery in Gwangju, South Korea (c) M. Hettling