Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability

12/03/2021

WORLD WAR 2 PEACE: Human Rights Day Showcase
Tuesday, 7 December 2021, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CET

How can understanding the past inspire a more peaceful future? Join Bosch Alumni Network members from around the world for a Human Rights Day event exploring the local impact and global resonance of historical research on peacebuilding!

Featuring presentations by:
Ulviyya Babayeva (Azerbaijan): "Rural Women in Peacebuilding: A Female Perspective on the Karabakh Conflict and Approaches to Peace”
Michele Dore (Italy): “Nights of the Talking Statues”
Sarah Kuvenguhwa (Zimbabwe): “Artivism and Culture Activities: A New Local Approach to Peacebuilding”
Garima Naidu (India): “Peacebuilding Using Technology: Cases from India”
Nataliya Nikolova (Bulgaria): “Monuments and Art: Inclusive Stories”
Jolanta Steciuk (Poland/Germany): “Place: Reconciliation in the (Global) Village”

Launched within the Bosch Alumni Network’s Peace Cluster in the spring of 2021, World War 2 Peace has brought together an international team of peace practitioners to document the legacies of social movements in their home countries and engage communities in dialogue about the past. Researchers combed the archives, conducted interviews, and created multimedia documentation projects in order to explore unique approaches to peacebuilding on the local level and share insights with a global audience.

Please join us on 7 December 2021 for an interactive showcase and Q&A session with the researchers from 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CET for those based in Europe and 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST for those on the East Coast of the U.S. Attendees are also welcome to participate in a brief brainstorming session following the main event, which will include discussions about digital storytelling applications of these research findings.

Please RSVP to this event page: https://www.boschalumni.net/events/74450 for access to the Zoom room and check out our project page: https://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/ahda/world-war-2-peace-documenting-history-peacebuilding for additional details on World War 2 Peace. This project was created through the first Bosch Alumni Network Peace Cluster ideas pitch in winter 2021, and is generously supported by the International Alumni Center Berlin and the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability at Columbia University. For further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to project directors Adis Hukanović and Erica Fugger at [email protected].

11/10/2021

This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and resistance

10/08/2021

Please join the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network
Live Seminar Series on Oct 12 at 12pm ET. More information below:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Trends in Political Apologies Across the World: Insight from the Political Apologies Database. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

09/30/2021

Join this event tomorrow!

The Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program (AHDA) is co-sponsoring an event organized by the Undergraduate Columbia's Committee on Global Thought titled "Contested Memory and Mass Violence: Understanding the Experience of the Comfort Women" with Professor Carol Gluck on October 1 at 11am ET. More information and registration: https://bit.ly/2Y9590R

04/19/2021

TOMORROW! Join us for the final event in the Historical Dialogues Series: "Interpretation and Telling the Story" on April 20th at 11am ET. Register here for Zoom login information: http://bit.ly/histdialogue5. Click here to learn more about the event: https://bit.ly/3fj57tg

Co-sponsored by Committee on Global Thought & Columbia | SIPA

04/15/2021

Fellow Highlight: AHDA alumna Hasini Haputhanthri interviewed about her new book 'Museums, Memory and Identity Politics in Sri Lanka' in Sri Lanka's The Sunday Morning.
The book is available in Sinhala, Tamil and English languages.

Full interview in the article "Beyond the dust and isolated narratives: Hasini Haputhanthri on ‘Museums, Memory and Identity Politics in Sri Lanka’ is available here: https://bit.ly/2OVUG4m

04/06/2021

AHDA alumnae from Lebanon (Nayla Hamadeh), South Africa (Bonita Bennett) and Sri Lanka (Hasini A. Haputhanthri) collaborate on a cross-regional project.
Please see their project showcased in an event on WORLD ART AND MEMORY MUSEUM.
Event: April 9th, 2021 | UTC (GMT) 13:00
To register and to receive Zoom link to attend, please visit WAMM site: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP7vy_KbshXzSmTCwUIJNguZwiyBGwfr0rw_Jobat04ExuOA/viewform

World Art and Memory Museum - Web Launch
WAMM is an effort by curators/ educators/ activists/ artists from Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, Lebanon, Russia, South Africa and Sri Lanka to create a virtual space that showcase modern and contemporary art related to social inclusion and the memory of human experience from
around the world. WAMM brings together many different countries and contexts, featuring artists and their creative work drawn from a variety of genres in visual and digital arts.

Program:
Welcome and introduction to WAMM
- Virtual tour D6Museum and website launch
- Curator’s input: 2 curators speak about their experience and what they try to do in WAMM
- What’s next

03/31/2021

FELLOW HIGHLIGHT: Project 'Living with memories of the missing’ that AHDA alumnus Korab Krasniqi was involved in creating adapted for broadcast into audio-dramas on Kanal10 in Kosovo.

The project aims to establish a culture of remembrance based on evidence.The project has been initiated by the forumZFD - Kosovo Program and other partners. The broadcast includes audio dramas with video-narrators.
Find out more information on the project: http://kosovomemory.org/

Photo credits: page of forumZFD - Kosovo Program