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Truth and Reconciliation Event (Dec. 11) in Toronto2 comments

tracingmemory wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m excited to be attending this upcoming event in Toronto: “They Came for the Children … more →

Tags: Events, Reflections, aboriginal, Canada, Indian Boarding School', Justice, Memory, Native, News

Guest Post: Sam Ford: Worlds Without End?

r wrote 2 weeks ago: The soap opera was once defined in part as providing worlds without end, as some have put it: fictio … more →

Tags: Books, continuity, cultural ownership, fandom, fans, gender differences in fandom, Generational Differences, Guest Post, Soap Opera

Award winning writer Iain Sinclair gives a guest lecture at Lancaster University 1 comment

helenperkins wrote 3 weeks ago: With white hair, a tailored jacket and not a tremor of nerves, the award-winning British author Iain … more →

Tags: Books, News, iain sinclair, psychogeography narrative, lancaster university english department, dr brian baker, downriver, encore award, xerox writing

Conference Number 5: Washington, D.C.

tracingmemory wrote 4 weeks ago: The American Studies Association (ASA) Conference was held this year in Washington, D.C. (Nov. 5th … more →

Tags: Events, Reflections, Conference, Forgiveness, Human Rights, Justice, memorials, Memory, Reconciliation

One Nation Under a Groove: Intellectual Property and Hip Hop

r wrote 1 month ago: When is something a quotation or a reference and when is it a sample that needs to be licensed? Acco … more →

Tags: African-American, Book Review, Books, cultural appropriation, cultural ownership, funk, hip-hop, P-Funk, Pokemon

Berlin! (Part 2)

tracingmemory wrote 1 month ago: As part of the Eleventh Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, the Irmgard Coninx Foundation organi … more →

Tags: Reflections, Berlin, Conference, memorials

Berlin! (Part 1)

tracingmemory wrote 1 month ago: I recently returned from Berlin where I was participating in the Eleventh Berlin Roundtables on Tran … more →

Tags: Events, Reflections, Resources, Conference, Education, Human Rights, South Africa, trc

The DIGNITY Series: Leaving the Reality-Based Community

Editors wrote 1 month ago: This is the eighth of a 10-part series examining the loss and possible recapture of dignity in our p … more →

Tags: Current Events, Politics, Culture, Dignity

Et tu Barbarossa!

ithaka wrote 2 months ago: Movie poster The Italian film about Friedrich I. Hohensatufer, better known as Barbarossa is not doi … more →

Tags: film, 19th_century

"Witnessing the Future" Event

tracingmemory wrote 2 months ago: On Thursday, October 15th, the IRS TRC chair, Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, the two commission … more →

Tags: Events, Reflections, aboriginal, Canada, Human Rights, Indian Boarding School', Justice, memorials, Memory

Amidst the Echoes

Editors wrote 2 months ago: NEW VOICES Journeys Amidst the Echoes: The Story of Lidice, Czech Republic Text and photographs by J … more →

Tags: Czech Republic, History, Holocaust, Lidice, World War II

Reading the Memories of Space

kinotektur wrote 2 months ago: Last week I visited the ADGD conference in Nottingham with the title: The Multiple Faces of Identity … more →

Tags: memory space relations, Memory, collective memory, communicative memory, nasjonalgalleriet, national gallery, Oslo, i memory..., sites of memory

IRS TRC Heading West?

tracingmemory wrote 3 months ago: With the appointment of the new Chair, Justice Murray Sinclair, there is talk of the IRS TRC moving … more →

Tags: Reflections, aboriginal, Canada, Controversy, Indian Boarding School', Memory, Native, Reconciliation, trc

digital memories - an introduction to the blog

jakobsn wrote 3 months ago: The cultural landscape that provides the nodes around which we form our identities and communities i … more →

Tags: Theory, communicative memories, Holocaust, Second-Life

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

metafiction wrote 5 months ago: Tony Takitani left the woman alone in the room. She pulled herself together and tried on a few of th … more →

Tags: Memory, Nostalgia, Murakami, Fashion, Roses, Birchville Cat Motel, Henry James

A Fragmented Reconciliation Process?

tracingmemory wrote 5 months ago: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada continues to face obstacles. Delayed by one year, … more →

Tags: Reflections, memorials, Memory, Canada, trc, Truth, Justice, aboriginal, Reconciliation

Recently Read: Magic Weapons2 comments

tracingmemory wrote 6 months ago: In Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School, Sam McKegney makes … more →

Tags: Reflections, recently read, book, Memory, Canada, trc, Truth, Justice, aboriginal

Update: The New Commission1 comment

tracingmemory wrote 6 months ago: As mentioned in a previous post, rumors have been circulating about the new Indian Residential Schoo … more →

Tags: Reflections, Resources, Memory, Canada, trc, Truth, Justice, aboriginal, Reconciliation

In the Nation's Capital: Residential School Exhibit2 comments

tracingmemory wrote 6 months ago: I was recently in Ottawa for the annual Canadian Communication Association’s (CCA) Conference … more →

Tags: Events, Reflections, aboriginal, Art, Canada, media, Native, Photography, Reconciliation


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