Remembering Africa & Its Diasporas: Memory, Public History & Representations of the Past. 6 to 8 October, 2010.

Organized by the Carleton Centre for Public History, the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University and the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University

This workshop brought together both junior and senior scholars, who explore the ways in which representations of Africa and the making of its diasporas are inscribed in public historical memory.  The meeting discussrf a range of work that assesses the forces which have shaped the production of history, the dissemination of historical representations, and their influence on shaping popular perceptions of Africa and its diasporas.

The proceedings from this workshop will be published in a collection to be edited by Drs. Audra A. Diptee and David V. Trotman. The collection is contracted to be published by Africa World Press.

The struggle over the re-presentation of the past continues to be contested terrain both in the academy and in the public domain. Keeping Africa at the centre of its analysis, this workshop will look at the ways in which Africa has been remembered, commemorated, and represented in a variety of contexts and media.

This workshop will, bring together both junior and senior scholars, to explore the ways in which representations of Africa and the making of its diasporas are inscribed in the public historical memory.  It will bring together a range of work that assesses the forces which have shaped the production of history, the dissemination of historical representations, and their influence on shaping popular perceptions of Africa and its diasporas.
The workshop will cover several themes including:

 Memory, Myth and the Historical Imagination: Museums, History, and Hagiography

Public History in the Digital Age

Historical Representations in Film, Advertising & Music

Visiting the Past: Historical Sites as Tourist Destinations

History & Power: Political Uses of Memory

History and the Popular Media:  Newspapers, Radio, Television

Explorations in the Theory & Methods of Public History…"

 

See program attached.

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