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 ‘The Social Memory Technology or the Power of Life Stories: Karen Worcman in Conversation with Pierrot Ross-Tremblay’ 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.

Registration is required

Event description:

In this talk, Karen Worcman and Pierrot Ross-Tremblay 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:

Karen Worcman, 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 São Paulo. Karen Worcman became an Ashoka Fellow in 1999.

Pierrot Ross-Tremblay (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.

Invitation

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’ Perspectives project initiated by the Cégep de l'Outaouais and the Kitigan Zibi First Nation Cultural Education Centre.

Date and time
Dec 8, 2021
All day
Format and location
Virtual
University of Ottawa
Language
English, French
Bilingual: French and English
Audience
Faculty and staff
Organized by
Faculty of Education