Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University) Your people will change. Your young will be more like us and ours more like you. Your hierarchical tendencies [...]
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Power in Naming: Reparations, Memorials, and Chicago Police Torture
Alice Kim and Vickie Casanova Willis (Chicago Torture Justice Memorials) Ferguson, New York, Florida, Baltimore, Chicago. Everywhere, it seems, Black life matters [...]
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‘Make of Me a Memory Once More’: Remembering Black Europe through Literature
Vicky Margree (University of Brighton) In 2005 the cultural critic Paul Gilroy warned against the ‘synonymity of European and white’. He [...]
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The Breivik Killings – remembering the victims, depoliticizing the crime
Sara Edenheim (Umeå University) The first commemoration of the terrorist attacks on Utøya and in Oslo where 77 people lost their [...]
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The Nakba in Israel: from contra-memory to divided memory
Raya Cohen (archiviomemoriemigranti) One current issue in the role of memory in contemporary Israel is that the events of 1947-49 that [...]
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Things still fall apart: the politics of memory in Côte d’Ivoire
Nicoletta Fagiolo (Independent Researcher) Photo: A non-violent and unarmed sit-in to block the security forces from breaking up an Ivorian Popular [...]
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Re-branding the Trauma of Slavery, or How to Pacify the Masses with Sites of Memory
Olivette Otele (Bath Spa University) Finding new ways to involve the population in memorial projects was at the heart of the [...]
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Curating/Creating, Art/Activism: the Place of Collective Participation
Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton) In a small shop on a side street in Belfast’s city centre an exhibition entitled Everyday [...]
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Connecting through Creativity: The Power of Stories
Ann O’Sullivan and Jackie Reynolds (Staffordshire University) “Art and literature have been taking human beings on empathic journeys ever since the [...]
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Getting Malled in Philadelphia: The Growth Coalition and the Historic City
Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University), Marcus Hunter (Yale University), and Kevin Loughran (Northwestern University) As cities struggled in the last half [...]
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