March 3, 2017, Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums "Fragments of War/Fragments of History" Mary Roldán, Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History and Chair of the History Department at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY); and Nancy Princenthal, Brooklyn-based writer and an author of the Phaidon monograph "Doris Salcedo," 2000. Moderated by Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. This symposium brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines and institutions to discuss Doris Salcedo’s work within the contexts of political science, human rights, religion, philosophy and literature, and art history. The two-day symposium sought to prompt wider conversation about the issues that are underscored in the exhibition "Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning" (Harvard Art Museums, November 4, 2016–April 9, 2017) and in Salcedo’s work as a whole—issues that are increasingly relevant in contemporary societies around the world. http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/calendar/topography-of-loss-a-symposium-on-doris-salcedo