The Americas part of the Report includes three main research groups: one North American group, who worked in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and two Latin American groups, one under the leadership of María del Rosario Acosta López, around the theme of memory in Colombia, and the second is a collective of scholars who worked independently, in connection with CHCI.
South America
Memory Work in Colombia:
Past and Present Experiences,
Legacies for the Future
CONTRIBUTORS
PROJECT TEAM
- Laura Zornosa & Julián Rios Acuña (Research Assistants)
- Mary Murrell (Editorial Assistance)
- Tupac Cruz, Víctor Ibarra B. & Julián Rios Acuña (Translators)
- Mary Murrell & Diego Alegría Corona (Transcripts)
- Víctor Ibarra B. & Anna Paretskaya (Copy editing)
- Pedro Hurtado Ortiz (Proofreading)
- María del Rosario Acosta López (Interviews, coordinator, and editor)
ESSAYS
PART I: CONTEXT
“Making Memory”: Historical Memory in Colombia and Its Legacies
How We Remember: Memory Work in Chicago and Colombia
PART II: INTERVIEWS
Remembering Colombian Historical Memory Center and Its Legacy
Memory Breaks the Everyday Habit of Invisibilizing Others
To Hear the Other’s Pain without Being Shipwrecked in Horror
Rehumanization Must Be Memory’s Task
Toward an Undisciplined Listening
Beyond the Historical Memory Center: Other Experiences
Giving a Place to the Dead and Reassembling the Present
Humanities That Heal, Objects That Remember
From Colombia to Chicago: On Liberatory Memory Work
Memory Work Needs to Be Infused with the Power of Imagination
The Beauty of Liberatory Memory Work Is in the Ceremony
South America
Independent Contributions
ESSAYS
Understanding Amazonia: From Interdisciplinary to Transdisciplinary Challenge
Transgressing Settler Borders: Grounded Relationalities in Abiayala
The Languages without Borders Network in Brazil
(Post)Humanities and the University: A Conversation
The Humanities in the Southern Cone: A Report
Must We Be So Humanistic?
North America
ESSAYS
Humanities in the United States
The Humanities in Canada: A Complex Ecosystem
Defined by Paradox: The Humanities in Mexico