{"id":222,"date":"2015-01-06T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/?p=222"},"modified":"2015-01-06T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:30:54","slug":"today-on-wnpr-purging-memory-in-ancient-rome-and-the-modern-soviet-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/2015\/01\/06\/today-on-wnpr-purging-memory-in-ancient-rome-and-the-modern-soviet-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Today on WNPR: Purging memory in ancient Rome and the modern Soviet Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a title=\"Damnatio memoriae\" href=\"http:\/\/wnpr.org\/post\/historical-deletion-and-censorship\" target=\"_blank\">Historical Deletion and Censorship<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><i>Listen to this show at cpbn.org or at 90.5 FM in the Hartford area.<\/i><\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wnpr.org\/people\/lydia-brown\" rel=\"author\">LYDIA BROWN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happens when a ruling party flat-out removes any proof of a person&#8217;s or community&#8217;s existence?<\/p>\n<p>This hour, we take a closer look at the history of deletion and censorship. We learn about the ancient Roman practice of\u00a0damnatio memoriae\u00a0and explore more recent attempts to erase people, places, and things from the history books.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post your comments below, email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Colin@wnpr.org\">Colin@wnpr.org<\/a>, or tweet us\u00a0@<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wnprcolin\" target=\"_blank\">wnprcolin<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>GUESTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eric Varner<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History and Classics at Emory University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marianna Tax Choldin<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Mortenson Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; member of the Committee to Visit the Library at the University of Chicago; author of\u00a0<em>A Fence Around the Empire: Russian Censorship of Western Ideas Under the Tsars<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Red Pencil: Artists, Scholars, and Censors in the USSR<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Pilato<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Globally recognized mural artist and owner of pilatomurals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Colin McEnroe and Chion\u00a0Wolf contributed to this show.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical Deletion and Censorship Listen to this show at cpbn.org or at 90.5 FM in the Hartford area. By\u00a0LYDIA BROWN What happens when a ruling party flat-out removes any proof of a person&#8217;s or community&#8217;s existence? This hour, we take a closer look at the history of deletion and censorship. We learn about the ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}