Developing Memory, Memories of Development

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, McGill University. Remembering the 1937 Haitian Massacre
• Pedro Monaville, McGill University. 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, McGill University. 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, McGill University

4:30-5:30. Reception