The Social Memory Technology or the Power of Life Stories: Karen Worcman in Conversation with Pierrot Ross-Tremblay
Karen Worcman in Conversation with Pierrot Ross-Tremblay
Dec 8, 2021 — All day
Join us for the next event in the series Building Connections: Mobilizing Indigenous Histories for Social Change, for the exchange entitled 鈥The Social Memory Technology or the Power of Life Stories: in Conversation with 鈥. Register for this event happening on December 08, 2021 at 3:00 PM.
Building Connections: Mobilizing Indigenous Histories for Social Change
Join us for the next event in the series Building Connections: Mobilizing Indigenous Histories for Social Change. In this exchange 鈥The Social Memory Technology or the Power of Life Stories: in Conversation with 鈥 the presenters will use museum case studies from Brazil to illustrate the methodology of Social Memory Technology.
Date: December 8, 2021
Time: from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Event description:
In this talk, and will discuss the Museu da Pessoa [Museum of the Person] in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and highlight some cases studies of its impact in order to demonstrate Social Memory Technology (Worcman and Garde-Hansen 2016) at work. This technology is a methodology developed by the Museum based on the concept that every life story matters and that every social group needs to produce its own history. The Museum affirms that the right of memory is more than just recognizing the memories of a specific group, but more importantly involves all social groups producing their own history, not only to create content, but also having the means to use it productively, technically and archivally. The Museum da Pessoa accordingly works with communities, grassroots organizations, public schools and other organizations on their history projects. Karen Worcman and Pierrot Ross-Tremblay will discuss the Social Mobility Technology and its potential among First Peoples, in the Amazonia as well as among our people here.
Presenters:
, Museu da Pesseo, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Karen Worcman is the founder and director of Museu da Pessoa. An historian and linguist, her research is focused on narratives, life stories and memory. She is also finishing her PhD in the Diversitas group within the Humanidades, Direitos e Outras Legitimidades (Humanities, Human Rights and Other Legitimacies) program of the University of S茫o Paulo. Karen Worcman became an Ashoka Fellow in 1999.
(Innu Essipit) is a Professor at the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies, University of Ottawa. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination. His research focuses on memory and forgetting, resistance, sovereignties and effective self-determination.
The series is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies and the Faculties of Education and of Arts at the University of Ottawa. It is organized in collaboration with the History in Canada: First Peoples鈥 Perspectives project initiated by the C茅gep de l'Outaouais and the Kitigan Zibi First Nation Cultural Education Centre.