Bearing Witness: The Impact of Memorialization
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this podcast series produced by Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Dr. Stephanie Arel and award winning documentary filmmaker Jessica Daugherty, we will speak with museum and memorial workers including curators, collectors, writers, and directors about the impacts their work at memorial sites has on communities and themselves to investigate the importance of the roles they play in society. The podcast is a continuation of Dr. Arel's research, and is a companion podcast to her book Bearing Witness: The Wounds of Mass Trauma at Memorial Museums.
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Bearing Witness: Galicia Jewish Museum
April 06, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBOne of the first locations Dr. Stephanie Arel visited when she began research for her book Bearing Witness: The Wounds of Mass Trauma at Memorial Museums was the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland. She went there to understand how they were memorializing the Holocaust and the impact this work had on the museum's workers. In this episode, we have the opportunity to catch up with Samantha McLaughlin, one of the first interviewees, about how her work at the Galicia Jewish Museum deepend he...
Bearing Witness: Les Anneaux de la Mémoire
March 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBIn 1992, Les Anneaux de la Mémoire (The Shackles of Memory) was an exhibition which was focused on the city of Nantes, France and its role and complicity as a trading port along the route of enslaved people in the 18th century. The exhibition was such a success that it became an association in Nantes that to this day publishes journals, researches and curates memorials and exhibitions, and commemorates people who were enslaved in the Western slave trades. To expand our discussions about the ...
Bearing Witness: The Whitney Plantation
February 03, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBThe memorialization and commemoration of the lives taken and lineage affected by the Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery in America is a fairly new field. On December 7th, 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened as a memorial ground and a museum in Wallace, Louisiana. It was the first of its kind in the US. In this episode we speak with two people whose work helped make the museum and memorial what it is today. Director of Research, Dr. Ibrahima Seck is a preeminent researcher, a...
Bearing Witness: Equal Justice Initiative
January 05, 2023 20:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBIn this episode, we speak with Tera DuVernay, the Deputy Director of Museum and Memorial Operations at the Equal Justice Initiative. Tera is also known for her work as a Researcher for several films including the academy award winning film 13th about mass criminalization in America. She has worked with the EJI for over 5 years and was on the core team who developed and opened the EJI’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The ...
Bearing Witness: Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation
December 02, 2022 03:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBFor the last hundred years, politicians, civilians, and academics have attempted to deny the Armenian Genocide. Currently, efforts exist to annihilate both a period of history and its people. In this episode, we are joined by Regina Galustyan of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation who discusses her research about the efforts of the perpetrator at denial and her hopes for the future of her country. This episode is brought to you by Dr. Stephanie Arel and produced by Shrine13.
Bearing Witness: Galerija 11/07/95 in Sarajevo
November 04, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBIt is once again a bustling, modern European city, but in 1995, Sarajevo was ravaged by Serbian forces during the Bosnian War of the 1990's. For four years, the Serbian military surrounded the city playing target practice with its citizens. In this episode, we speak with Nejra Mulaomerovic whose home stood on the front lines and we learn about her love of photography, her commitment to truth-telling, and her efforts at honoring memory. This episode is brought to you by Dr. Stephanie Arel a...
Bearing Witness: Remembering for others in Cambodia
October 06, 2022 18:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBThis episode introduces listeners to Sopheaktra Tim and Chamroeun Lak. Both are memory workers in Cambodia, a country where most older adults experienced the violence of the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot and his regime ravished Cambodia from 1975-1979. These workers discuss their efforts at remembering their fallen ancestors as well as the resilience in their country, and the way they connect with these ancestors today. This episode is brought to you by Dr. Stephanie Arel and produced by Shrine13.
Bearing Witness: National September 11 Memorial & Museum
September 11, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBIn this episode we speak with Lisa Conte, head conservator at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Alexandra Drakakis, a former curator who worked there for 13 years, to discuss the impact of the memorial and museum on the survivor community and on their own lives. This episode is brought to you by Dr. Stephanie Arel and produced by Shrine13.