http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/townsend_rw/rss Recent eScholarship items from Other Recent Work Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:57:22 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4186r83b <p>"Grounds for Remembering" contains the transcribed proceedings of a symposium on mourning, memory and the meaning of monuments in the modern period. The symposium was organized by the Townsend Center to celebrate the residency of architect and sculptor Maya Lin on the Berkeley campus, and to engage Ms. Lin, as well as faculty from Architecture, History, and English, in a consideration of how human communities seek through built form both to compensate for loss and to understand their history.</p><p>Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights Memorial, draws on her own experience, particularly her work in designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in discussing the artistic and technical issues of building a major national monument. She describes the context within which she originally created the design and the political issues that surrounded her involvement in its construction.</p><p>Historian Thomas Laqueur looks to predecessors of the Vietnam... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4186r83b Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000