How did we go from the killing of George #Floyd by Minneapolis police to the toppling of #statues around the world? The #BlackLivesMatter movement has sparked a global conversation on systemic racism, the slave trade and the colonial past. But where do you draw the line? How to honour the past? What icons of our modern-day Republics deserve to be cast in stone in our public squares?
François Picard's panel discusses an argument over statues that's as old as the ancient Greeks and – in a world that's grown smaller thanks to globalisation – where immortalised figures of the past find themselves today under fresh scrutiny.
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