Memory for the Future (M4F) collaborates with scholars, artists, community organizers, and arts and cultural institutions to plan and develop reparative public humanities projects in St. Louis. We spotlight some of these partnerships below.
Kavena and Miriam's residency centers their multi-directional memory work on Germany's Forgotten Genocide, the Herero and Nama Genocide in present-day Namibia in 1905. In addition to engaging the lab in the study of this "forgotten genocide," and the public humanities approaches they employ in their commemorative intervention, they are partnering with St. Louis' Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum in a public program featuring their work.
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Columbian writer Juan Cárdenas joined us to discuss his novel Elástico de Sombra, the Afro-Colombian martial art of machete fencing, and the vital role of translation in multi-directional and reparative memory. An English translation of the novel by M4F fellow Santiago Rozo-Sanchez facilitated this engagement.
MoreAida Šehović is a Bosnian born artist based in Sarajevo. She is the founder and caretake of ŠTO TE NEMA – a public monument to the Srebrenica Genocide. Aida engaged the lab in reflection on ethical, methodological, and practical aspects of public memorials to atrocity, and led M4F in a public reading focused on multi-directional community remembrance.
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Director of Outreach and Alliances at the John Hope Franklin Center for Racial Reconciliation in Tulsa, OK, Vanessa Adams-Harris engaged with M4F to discuss multi-directional and reparative memory work in this similarly wounded place, and introduced us to local community partners, in preparation for our Tulsa study trip.
MoreAuthor of The Broken Heart of America, co-founder of the Commonwealth Project, and Winthrop Professor of History and African and African American Studies, visiting scholar Walter Johnson advised our analytic and strategic approach to multi-directional and reparative memory work in St. Louis.
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Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA, visiting scholar Michael Rothberg helped initiate our development of multi-directional and reparative memory work.
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