Dr. Stéphane Martelly, Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations

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Stéphane Martelly, Université de Sherbrooke presents "What Does Sharing Authority Mean? Reinventing Memories and Traces Through Oral History"

Montreal Life Stories was an oral history project exploring Montrealers' experiences and memories of mass violence and displacement. From 2007 to 2012, a team of both university and community-based researchers recorded life story interviews with more than 500 residents from the city's Rwandan, Jewish, Haitian, and Cambodian communities. Academic publications, digital stories, theatre plays, films, international conferences, educational material, and museum exhibitions were created to disseminate these stories. As time elapses since the end of the project, it is now possible to reflect more deeply on the implications of such collaborative work. Dr. Martelly's presentation will represent the arc of what "sharing authority" truly means when we try to center voices from the margins.

This talk is part of the Engaged Humanities speaker series, organized by Dr. Joseph Plaster and sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the Center for Educational Resources, the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and the Center for Social Concern.