‘Practicing History in Super-Diverse Societies: Possibilities, Challenges, Dilemmas’
TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt is pleased to announce its workshop and reading group series for 2019-2020.
As our societies become increasingly ‘super-diverse’, so do various ways to engage with the past. Within the public sphere, collective tools to deal with a ‘super-diversity’ of ‘historical cultures’ are often felt to be lacking, as is reflected in inabilities to deal with difficult (genocidal, colonial, religious) pasts and the formation of counter-histories and -identities. This specialist course will start with a theoretical introduction to the concept of ’super diversity’ in relation to history and memory, to then explore the use of history in four super-diverse ‘contact zones’: schools, the academy, heritage sites, and museums.
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