{"id":215,"date":"2017-09-13T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/?p=215"},"modified":"2020-09-09T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:32:15","slug":"vietnam-memorial-brown-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/2017\/09\/13\/vietnam-memorial-brown-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vietnam Women&#8217;s Memorial &#8211; Sociology Brown Bag Series 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The Vietnam Women&#8217;s Memorial: Dialogical Memory and Mixed Genres of Commemoration&#8221;<\/strong> was a talk delivered by Monika \u017bychli\u0144ska on September 13th, 2017 as part of\u00a0 the NSSR&#8217;s Sociology department&#8217;s brown bag series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Inaugurated in 1993, the Vietnam Women&#8217;s Memorial commemorates women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War, most of whom were nurses. \u017bychli\u0144ska&#8217;s research sought to understand the politics of memory surrounding this memorial. How does the Vietnam Women&#8217;s Memorial Project (VWMP) respond to earlier commemorations of the Vietnam War? What new interpretations does it offer? How does it portray veterans, especially female veterans? Finally, how has this commemorative effort been inscribed into the overall struggle to to provide this controversial war with an acceptable social interpretation? Funded by the Polish National Science Center, \u017bychli\u0144ska&#8217;s research project, entitled &#8220;Against Stigma and Invisibility: Identity Politics of the Vietnam Women&#8217;s Memorial Project (VWMP),&#8221; closely examined the dialogical memory and mixed genres of commemoration this memorial represents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Monika \u017bychli\u0144ska is a sociologist, Americanist, and doctoral candidate at the University of Warsaw\u2019s Institute of Sociology. Her research interests include cultural memory \u2013especially the memory of war and trauma \u2013 and its influence on shaping individual and collective identities, gender, and social movements. She was a visiting researcher at the New School for Social Research in 2012\/13 (thanks to a grant from the Ko\u015bciuszko Foundation). Publications include an article co-authored with Erica Fontana, entitled \u201cMuseal Games and Emotional Truths: Creating Polish National Identity at the Warsaw Rising Museum\u201d in <em>East European Politics, Societies and Cultures<\/em> (2016) Volume 2: 235-269.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Vietnam Women&#8217;s Memorial: Dialogical Memory and Mixed Genres of Commemoration&#8221; was a talk delivered by Monika \u017bychli\u0144ska on September 13th, 2017 as part of\u00a0 the NSSR&#8217;s Sociology department&#8217;s brown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68625,68607],"tags":[68627,68628,68626,68629],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brown-bags","category-events-workshops-webinars","tag-memorials","tag-memory-and-gender","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/memorystudiestns\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}