Methodological Approaches to the Use of Cultural Forms of Testimony in Understanding the Past

  • Jones, S. (Organiser)
  • Roger Woods (Organiser)
  • James Griffiths (Host)

Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Networking event

Description

Second workshop of the AHRC network "Culture and its Uses as Testimony", hosted at, and in collaboration with, the National Holocaust Centre and Museum (NHC). The principal purpose of the workshop was to exchange perspectives between academics from different disciplines and practitioners working in diverse fields around four core questions: How can and do museums and educators approach both biographical and literary/fictional forms of testimony in understanding the past? How can cultural forms of testimony, especially in the museum, function as a method of providing victims with symbolic justice or reparation? How can one do justice to the complexity and ambiguity of cultural sources while using them as testimony? What are the opportunities and challenges for educators, museums and other producers of culture in both using and creating testimony?
Period8 Mar 2017
Event titleMethodological Approaches to the Use of Cultural Forms of Testimony in Understanding the Past
Event typeWorkshop
LocationNewark, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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