Organised by the IWM Institute in close partnership with Historic England with support from the UK Blue Shield, the Culture Under Attack Symposium will unpick the complexities behind the targeting and destruction of culture around the world, questioning how we rebuild societies once that which defines us has gone.

The symposium will bring together panels of artists, academics, journalists and policy-makers, who will lend their unique perspectives and help reveal the motivations behind and wide-reaching effects of cultural devastation, including Forensic Architecture’s Ariel Caine.

Panels will be followed by a screening of the award-winning documentary The Destruction of Memory and an accompanying Q&A session chaired by the IWM’s director, Tim Slade.

For more information and tickets, please visit the IWM website.