memory

2021 Lemkin Book Award
Award Recipients Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes
Public Talk
Thursday November 11

The Institute for the Study of Genocide (ISG) is delighted to announce the 2021 Lemkin Book Award public talk by award winners Dr. Alison Crosby and Dr. M. Brinton Lykes for their book, "Beyond Repair? Mayan Women's Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm."  

The event will be online Thursday, November 11, at 5:30pm ET.  

Please join us!
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Call for contributions to a special number

‘Imagining the “musical memorial”. Music and (re)transmission of memories of slave trades and slaveries’

Many thanks to Rachael and Janine! I've noted the recommendations, checked them online, and will follow up. I see that Eakin also edited a volume called The Ethics of Life Writing, published in 2004. It's so gratifying to see what a rich field this is.

This sounds like a fascinating project. Life writing scholars have written a lot about memory and life stories, which will be of value to your project. I find that Paul John Eakin's work is particularly useful, "How our lives become stories: Making selves" discusses many of the questions you have raised. Not a model, but some very helpful insights to ponder about testimony, personal stories, and writing about our memories and the stories of others.

You might want to check out "Who She Was" by Samuel G. Freedman. It is a memoir/biography written about his mother, who died when he was 20. Freedman is a journalist and journalism professor so he took a journalistic approach to documenting his mother's life. He did not include anything that couldn't be documented, i.e. he didn't rely on memory or speculation. I work in the field of memoir/biography so this issue of memory is very interesting to me. Your project sounds great. Reach out if you need more information.

I'll be brief. I am a musicologist with a specialty in Afro-Haitian music, and drum ensemble music in particular. I spent thirty years of my life living with a New York-based Haitian drummer. He passed away ten years ago. I've been building an archive of his life and legacy, and I've also begun to write his biography. This is my first attempt at biography, so advice is especially welcome.

Call for contributions to a special number

‘Imagining the “musical memorial”. Music and (re)transmission of memories of slave trades and slaveries’

Call for contributions to a special number

‘Imagining the “musical memorial”. Music and (re)transmission of memories of slave trades and slaveries’