Panelists:

• Clifford Chanin, National September 11 Memorial and Museum
• Stephane Grimaldi, Mmorial de Caen
• Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Performance Studies, New York University, and Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
• Valerie Paley, New York Historical Society

Discussants:

• Jacqueline Eidelman, Department of National Heritage, French Ministry of Culture and Communication, France
• Andreas Huyssen, German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

An international panel of museum curators discusses the challenges of public exhibitions that deal with a difficult past: political constraints, conflicting narratives, material culture, and traumatic events.

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