Event
Developing Memory, Memories of Development
Friday, March 22, 2024
Program - Thomson House Ballroom
Registration Link: www.mcgill.ca/isid/registration
9:00-9:15. Coffee and pastries
9:15a-10a. Opening Keynote: “African Diaspora’s Epistemology, Memory as Marooning”
- Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, University of California Santa Barbara, History
10:15-11:45. “La Memoria en el Chocó”
Presentations from Muntú Bantú Fundación Afrocolombiana
- Kelly López Roldán y Ann Farnsworth Alvear, "La recuperación del Archivo Histórico Judicial de Istmina (1870-1930): un proyecto del semillero de jóvenes de la Fundación Muntú Bantú"
- Sergio Antonio Mosquera Mosquera, "Amancebamiento en los archivos coloniales"
- María Fernanda Parra Ramírez, "El mito sobre la esclavizada Agustina en 1795"
- Chair: Celina Van Dembroucke
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:15-2:45. “Global History, Global Memory”
- Sabine Cadeau, SM. Remembering the 1937 Haitian Massacre
- Pedro Monaville, SM. The Cunning of Memory: Reflections on the Tensions of Oral History in Postcolonial Congo
- Elisa Scaraggi, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Memories of Liberation in Contemporary Angola
- Chair: Rachel Hatcher
3:00-4:00. “Memory in Practice”
- Juliet Johnson, SM. The Post-Communist Monuments Project.
- Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro, Concordia University. Call and Response: Towards a Performance-Based Tool for Facilitating Listening and Collective Remembering in a Transitional Justice Context. (short title: Performance, listening and transitional justice)
- Chair: Megan Bradley
4:00-4:30. Closing Remarks: “Racialized Truth and Memory under the Colombian Transitional Justice Process: Black Communities and their Demand to be Listened to and Empowered.”
- Yuri Alexander Romaña-Rivas, SM
4:30-5:30. Reception