Memory, Victims, and Representation of the Colombian Conflict
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Modern Languages and Cultures
Abstract
This project explores representations of conflict, justice, and victims in Colombia's 60-year long conflict. It focuses on how these topics are starting to be represented in museums and official exhibitions that have been, or are in the process of, being developed within Colombia. It also interrogates the voices that are not yet heard or represented in these official accounts, and proposes mechanisms for recording these voices, and, ultimately, integrating them into these accounts. Conceiving of museums as spaces in which collective memories are represented, and in which conflict is documented, but also as providing potential mechanisms for transformation or resistance, the project will offer insights into these practices, evaluate the effectiveness of their representations, and contribute to policy-making and public awareness.
The project proposes that there are two key issues at stake: firstly, that of agency, in the sense of the victims themselves being given active positions within these representations. Secondly, that of gender, which is often overlooked in accounts of Colombia's civil war. Our hypothesis is that existing discourses of the 60-year long conflict in Colombia have often overlooked gendered violence, since narratives of the conflict tend to focus on male actors, and that only by bringing to the fore these forgotten voices can the full story be told, and, ultimately, conflict transformation be fully enabled.
As a starting point, the project will evaluate existing practices of representation of victims in Colombia in a museum context, through a detailed visual and textual analysis of the forms of representation as depicted in the Museo Nacional [National Museum], and in the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica [National Centre for Historical Memory], and will produce a classification of these as regards key issues such as agency, point of view, and the gaze. Subsequently, the project will work at uncovering and documenting alternative histories and alternative memory, and will offer new proposed forms of recognising these victims. Focussing on women, the project will analyse forms of representation on the digital platforms of NGOs dedicated to women victims, memory, and resistance. Here, our analysis will again focus on the key issues of agency, point of view, and the gaze, and will also document any new and innovative forms of representation that take into account the voices and needs of the victims themselves. We will also undertake an in-depth analysis of the documentation gathered by the Centro de Memoria Histórica to draw out women's experiences.
We will devise and deliver an ethical workshop to research students specialising in Human Rights, and, subsequently, these researchers will undertake research projects focussing on rural and campesina women in the Boyacá region of Colombia. We will then work closely with these women victims in co-creation workshops, in order to develop a new, interactive artwork which will tell the story of these women victims, and offer new perspectives on the conflict, empowering these women to take ownership of their narrative. This interactive artwork will form part of a mixed-media travelling exhibition, which will be displayed in the first instance in Bogotá, and subsequently at other venues around the country.
Although this artwork will be specific to the Colombian context, we aim to draw out, in the form of a toolkit, how findings could be adapted to other contexts, and so develop the as yet unexplored potential of digital art and its role in conflict transformation. Throughout the project, we will also work closely with the team advising the creation of Colombia's proposed new Museum of Memory, and aim to shape its practice, and contribute to the creation of more valid and victim-centric narratives.
The project proposes that there are two key issues at stake: firstly, that of agency, in the sense of the victims themselves being given active positions within these representations. Secondly, that of gender, which is often overlooked in accounts of Colombia's civil war. Our hypothesis is that existing discourses of the 60-year long conflict in Colombia have often overlooked gendered violence, since narratives of the conflict tend to focus on male actors, and that only by bringing to the fore these forgotten voices can the full story be told, and, ultimately, conflict transformation be fully enabled.
As a starting point, the project will evaluate existing practices of representation of victims in Colombia in a museum context, through a detailed visual and textual analysis of the forms of representation as depicted in the Museo Nacional [National Museum], and in the Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica [National Centre for Historical Memory], and will produce a classification of these as regards key issues such as agency, point of view, and the gaze. Subsequently, the project will work at uncovering and documenting alternative histories and alternative memory, and will offer new proposed forms of recognising these victims. Focussing on women, the project will analyse forms of representation on the digital platforms of NGOs dedicated to women victims, memory, and resistance. Here, our analysis will again focus on the key issues of agency, point of view, and the gaze, and will also document any new and innovative forms of representation that take into account the voices and needs of the victims themselves. We will also undertake an in-depth analysis of the documentation gathered by the Centro de Memoria Histórica to draw out women's experiences.
We will devise and deliver an ethical workshop to research students specialising in Human Rights, and, subsequently, these researchers will undertake research projects focussing on rural and campesina women in the Boyacá region of Colombia. We will then work closely with these women victims in co-creation workshops, in order to develop a new, interactive artwork which will tell the story of these women victims, and offer new perspectives on the conflict, empowering these women to take ownership of their narrative. This interactive artwork will form part of a mixed-media travelling exhibition, which will be displayed in the first instance in Bogotá, and subsequently at other venues around the country.
Although this artwork will be specific to the Colombian context, we aim to draw out, in the form of a toolkit, how findings could be adapted to other contexts, and so develop the as yet unexplored potential of digital art and its role in conflict transformation. Throughout the project, we will also work closely with the team advising the creation of Colombia's proposed new Museum of Memory, and aim to shape its practice, and contribute to the creation of more valid and victim-centric narratives.
Planned Impact
Our impact strategies provide for collaboration, engagement and impact involving the following groups of beneficiaries:
Museums
Human rights museums sector
NGOs
Women victims
Schools in Colombia
The general public in Colombia.
Regarding museums, we will work principally with the National Museum of Colombia, the National Centre for Historical Memory, and the new proposed National Museum of Memory. Other museums will also benefit, including the UPTC Museum, the Caqueta Museum, and related bodies that undertake activities related to historical memory, such as the Colombian Network of Places of Memory, thus ensuring nationwide reach. These museums will benefit by new or improved exhibitions, learning materials, and new ways of interacting with audiences offered by our outputs and activities specifically geared towards them. They will also benefit from our guide document, which will draw out findings related to their needs, as well as raising issues and challenges. The National Museum of Memory will also benefit specifically through our meetings with them, as our project will inform the development of the museum.
The project will also have relevance for human rights museums as a sector, and we will work closely with the Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM). FIHRM will benefit from the insights provided in our case studies for their Resources bank which are geared specifically to their needs, through learning gained from our outputs about digital art in a broader human rights contexts, and through our development of their Latin American Regional Forum, which they have highlighted as a priority (see letter of support).
NGOs include Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres, Zoscua and Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y Contra la Impunidad who will be involved in the project throughout, and will also share findings with the wider networks they provide access to. They will benefit from gaining an in-depth understanding of their own practice; sharing best practice; increased visibility for their work; the guide document/toolkit mentioned above, which may be adapted to third sector contexts; and the digital artwork, which presents the voices of those represented by these NGOs, and places victims centre-stage.
In our work with the women victims, we envisage significant opportunities for impact. The women victims themselves, and the NGOs who represent their interests, will be closely involved in the co-design of this interactive artwork. The women victims are envisaged as co-creators of the artwork, and will take ownership of it; we thus see them as gaining agency through the artwork in the telling of their stories. The artwork will thus have a significant impact in empowering women to tell their own stories, and to represent their experiences on their own terms.
School groups in Colombia will benefit from new insights into the conflict, access to the voices of unheard victims, and new experiences of art as interactive, encouraging reflection and participation. Worksheets for this exhibition will mean that teachers will also benefit from the structured activities that they can undertake with their students and integrate into their classroom teaching.
In addition to these discrete groups of beneficiaries, it is anticipated that the general public will benefit, including those who attend the travelling exhibition in person, and those who engage with it online, so achieving a wider reach. They will benefit from a raised awareness of the women victims, and also from the new modes of interaction that the digital artwork provides. We envisage the exhibition, and the interaction that the public will have with it, as a transformatory experience in which arts initiatives are part of a broader project of conflict transformation and peace building.
Museums
Human rights museums sector
NGOs
Women victims
Schools in Colombia
The general public in Colombia.
Regarding museums, we will work principally with the National Museum of Colombia, the National Centre for Historical Memory, and the new proposed National Museum of Memory. Other museums will also benefit, including the UPTC Museum, the Caqueta Museum, and related bodies that undertake activities related to historical memory, such as the Colombian Network of Places of Memory, thus ensuring nationwide reach. These museums will benefit by new or improved exhibitions, learning materials, and new ways of interacting with audiences offered by our outputs and activities specifically geared towards them. They will also benefit from our guide document, which will draw out findings related to their needs, as well as raising issues and challenges. The National Museum of Memory will also benefit specifically through our meetings with them, as our project will inform the development of the museum.
The project will also have relevance for human rights museums as a sector, and we will work closely with the Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM). FIHRM will benefit from the insights provided in our case studies for their Resources bank which are geared specifically to their needs, through learning gained from our outputs about digital art in a broader human rights contexts, and through our development of their Latin American Regional Forum, which they have highlighted as a priority (see letter of support).
NGOs include Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres, Zoscua and Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y Contra la Impunidad who will be involved in the project throughout, and will also share findings with the wider networks they provide access to. They will benefit from gaining an in-depth understanding of their own practice; sharing best practice; increased visibility for their work; the guide document/toolkit mentioned above, which may be adapted to third sector contexts; and the digital artwork, which presents the voices of those represented by these NGOs, and places victims centre-stage.
In our work with the women victims, we envisage significant opportunities for impact. The women victims themselves, and the NGOs who represent their interests, will be closely involved in the co-design of this interactive artwork. The women victims are envisaged as co-creators of the artwork, and will take ownership of it; we thus see them as gaining agency through the artwork in the telling of their stories. The artwork will thus have a significant impact in empowering women to tell their own stories, and to represent their experiences on their own terms.
School groups in Colombia will benefit from new insights into the conflict, access to the voices of unheard victims, and new experiences of art as interactive, encouraging reflection and participation. Worksheets for this exhibition will mean that teachers will also benefit from the structured activities that they can undertake with their students and integrate into their classroom teaching.
In addition to these discrete groups of beneficiaries, it is anticipated that the general public will benefit, including those who attend the travelling exhibition in person, and those who engage with it online, so achieving a wider reach. They will benefit from a raised awareness of the women victims, and also from the new modes of interaction that the digital artwork provides. We envisage the exhibition, and the interaction that the public will have with it, as a transformatory experience in which arts initiatives are part of a broader project of conflict transformation and peace building.
Organisations
Publications
Coronado Vitolo, Lineth Katherine
(2019)
Memorias de Mujeres Sobrevivientes del Conflicto Armado en Colombia y la Vulneración de Sus Derechos Humanos
Fuentes, M. M.
(2023)
Un Museo para Mí: un 'museo de bolsillo'
in ICOM Voices
Fuentes, M. M.
(2023)
"La migración un asunto del presente": Un taller de encuentro y escucha entre educadores de museos
in Chaski: Revista de la Alianza Regional del ICOM para América Latina y el Caribe
Mujer Diaspora
(2022)
Un museo para mí: calendario Mujer Diáspora
Taylor C
(2023)
Memory practices 'from below': Mnemonic solidarity, intimacy and counter-monuments in the practices of Zoscua, Colombia
in Memory Studies
Taylor C
(2021)
Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory: An Analysis of Archival Practices 'From Below' in Four NGOs in Colombia
in Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies:
| Title | Exhibition: Memory, Victims, and Representation of the Colombian Conflict |
| Description | A major travelling exhibition which premiered at the Archeaological Museum, Tunja, Colombia on 22 March 2023, and ran for 6 months, showcasing the findings of the project, including work with various women's survivors groups. Early feedback shows audience changes in opinions and potential for impact on teaching. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Early feedback shows audience changes in opinions and potential for impact on teaching. |
| Title | Memory, Victims and Representation of the Colombian Conflict |
| Description | Animated video about the project in English, Spanish, and with subtitles. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Use at conferences, graduation ceremonies and other events to promote the project. |
| Title | Suite of museum products with Museum for Me branding |
| Description | A suite of products based on the research findings of the project, and designed for use and retail in museum shops, initially in Colombia, and then throughout the region. Four products have been designed to date, comprising: A museum kit, comprising cut-out, colour, and collage activities, focused around the issues of memory and human rights A theatre kit, comprising a cut-out puppet theatre, focused around the issues of memory A visit book, comprising activities and reflections for the visitor to museum spaces A timeline, comprising a foldable artefact with colour and collage activities One further product is currently being designed, with a more specific focus on human rights issues |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Prototypes have been used with 3 groups so far; response has been very positive. Further activities and focus groups are planned, at which the products will be refined. The products will eventually be scaled up and put on sale in the museum sector in Colombia, and then across Latin America. The Federation of International Human Rights Museums has expressed an interest in rolling out the products across all member museums in Latin America. |
| Description | Achievements include: Extensive interviews, and detailed analysis (qualitative and quantitative) of Colombia's main museum, the National Museum Colombia, in Bogota, leading to journal articles in progress by the PDRA. Archival research at the National Centre for Historical Memory, Bogota, Colombia. Extensive research on the web presence of the Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres, leading to a journal article submitted to Feminist Media Studies by the PI (outcome pending). Extensive research on the grassroots memory practices of Zoscua, leading to a journal article in progress by the PI. Extensive research on the practices of feminist activist groups in Colombia, leading to a single-authored monograph by the International CI (published). Increased research capacity in the ODA country (Colombia), comprising: Workshops to deliver training in interviewing of women victims to research students of the Masters in Human Rights at the UPTC (the Technological and Pedagogical University of Colombia), Chiquinquira, plus doctoral students and staff of the UPTC. Development and co-supervision of research projects by research students at the UPTC (the Technological and Pedagogical University of Colombia), Tunja and Chiquinquira, in Colombia, focussing on women in the Boyacá region of Colombia. Co-supervised by PI and International CI, leading to one Masters thesis already submitted and passed, with 'nota meritoria' (Coronado); three Masters theses in progress; and one PhD project in progress. The Masters and doctoral students, who have been trained by the project, will then be in a position to become experts in the area of women victims, specifically of Boyacá. Successes so far include the fact the doctoral student William Condiza, has already been invited to speak in Seville about his research; and that Masters student Katherine Coronado, has already been appointed to a post providing psycho-social and educational support as a result of her Masters, as well as having been interviewed for the Truth Commission, and contributing to their forthcoming report. Co-creation workshops in October 2019, with invited members of the Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres (from across Colombia) and Zoscua (from Boyacá). Led by CI Mencia, and involving the whole research team, the workshops involved the women taking part in creative activities related to representing their experience of the Colombian conflict. The work produced in these workshops is now in the process of becoming a co-created multi-media artwork, which will be displayed at a variety of museums in Colombia, and will be housed more permanently at www.voces-invisibles.com. Traveling mixed-media exhibition, which has been displayed at the Casa Cultural Rojas Pinilla in Tunja, Colombia, throughout November 2019. Diploma in Human Rights, offered for free by the UPTC to women victims and social leaders within the context of the conflict in the Boyacá region. Team members across the institutions involved with the grant are contributing voluntary sessions to the diploma, with Professor Taylor and her team giving sessions on the significance of social media in Human Rights campaigning and visibility, representations in official memory spaces, and 'A Museum for Me' activities. |
| Exploitation Route | The Federation of International Human Rights Museums (FIHRM) will benefit from the case studies that our project will deliver to their Resources Bank, on insights into human rights issues as they are represented in museums and other bodies. FIHRM will also benefit from the development of the Latin American Regional Forum, identified as a need by FIRHM, and which is now giving greater visibility to museums dealing with human rights issues in a Latin American context. Our workshops to deliver training in interviewing of women victims to research students of the Masters in Human Rights at the UPTC (the Technological and Pedagogical University of Colombia), Chiquinquira, plus doctoral students and staff of the UPTC as noted above, will have significant impact, since many of the cohort of the Masters in Human Rights at UPTC go on to work in areas such as law, human rights and activism. The Diploma in Human Rights, offered for free by the UPTC to women victims and social leaders, with a particular focus on women on low incomes, and/or who have limited or no formal education, will have a transformative effect on the women participants. Women victims will also benefit from the digital artwork, which will empower the women to tell their own stories, and make their voices heard. We also envisage particular benefits for schools groups in Colombia, who will gain from attending the many exhibitions that our project has developed, and from viewing and interacting with the component artworks, which will give them insights into the conflict, and access to the voices of unheard victims. Extensive engagement with the general public has already taken place, and is ongoing: our multiple creative and artistic outputs allow for innovative forms of engagement. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/research-themes/transforming-conflict/representation-of-colombian-conflict/ |
| Description | Our findings informed our delivery of training in methods, ethics, and interviewing of women victims to research students of the Masters in Human Rights at the UPTC (the Technological and Pedagogical University of Colombia), Chiquinquira, plus doctoral students and staff of the UPTC. This has already started to have a societal impact; one of the Masters students subsequently did her thesis on women victims of Boyacá, and has now been appointed to provide psychosocial support at the Institución educativa técnica, Pio Morantes sede central. The extensive research carried out by the entire research team has also led to the creation of a Diploma in Human Rights, Genders, Memory and Construction of Peace in Colombia (Diplomado en Derechos Humanos, Géneros, Memoria y Construcción de Paz en Colombia), which started in February 2020, and is being offered for free to women victims and social leaders, with a particular focus on women on low incomes, and/or who have limited or no formal education. For many women, it will be the first formal qualification they will gain. The research carried out by the project identified this need amongst women victims of Boyacá, and the entire diploma is structured around their needs, and the research findings of the team. It is anticipated that the diploma will have a transformative effect on the women participants. The first cohort of such women graduated in 2022. Our findings have also led to the development of a suite of museum products, under the brand 'A Museum For Me', which were developed under a follow-on project (see 'further funding'). Extensive engagement with the general public has already taken place, and is ongoing: our multiple creative and artistic outputs allow for innovative forms of engagement. Research student Katherine Coronado has been interviewed for the Truth Commission. The wider project team has also worked extensively with the Truth Commission, in a range of participatory events. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2009 |
| Sector | Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
| Description | CPD Workshop delivered for CECA, ICOM |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The main impact was evidenced in the fostering of a constructive dialogue between museum professionals and the youth of Tucume, evidencing the museum not only as a custodian of artifacts, but as a living place of social and cultural interaction. The importance of museums in non-formal education and in fostering creativity and local identity was highlighted. This event strengthened the relationship between the museum and the community, encouraging youth participation in the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage. The activity proved to be a significant step towards the democratization of access to culture and awareness of the relevance of heritage in the construction of sustainable and cohesive futures. |
| Description | Katherine Coronado, research student on the project, interviewed for a report by the truth commission (forthcoming) |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Methodological and ethical training devised and delivered to research students at the UPTC on the MA in Human Rights. Capacity building exercise, not only equipping these researchers for the project, but also future generations. rural and campesina women in the Boyacá region of Colombia. |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Community Museums in the Creative Economy |
| Amount | £119,110 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/W006693/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Modern Endangered Archives Program |
| Amount | $14,900 (USD) |
| Funding ID | Subaward number 5400 G ZA802 |
| Organisation | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | Museo Reinventado | Museum Reinvented |
| Amount | £750 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Being Human Festival |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Research Grant, Follow-on Funding Impact & Eng, grant title Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory |
| Amount | £99,205 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/T007885/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Translation to policy, practice and product for low and middle income countries |
| Amount | £658,971 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T015217/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | UK Research and Innovation, GCRF Global Impact Acceleration Grant |
| Amount | £13,342 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Title | Memoria Victimas Representacion: Voces Invisibles app |
| Description | App for mobile phones and tablets, to allow women victims to contribute to the digital artwork, by submitting images, texts or sounds. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Pilot version of the app is ready. Some women victims have already used the app and submitted their stories. More concrete impact will arise when the final version of the app is launched and the digital artwork is created. |
| Description | A Museum For Me/Un Museo Para Mí: Calendar Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation delivered by Mujer Diáspora, a community group representing Colombian women in exile in the UK, and who contributed to the UK and Ireland Hub of the Colombian Truth Commission. Working with the A Museum For Me/Un Museo Para Mí project led the project PI, Mujer Diáspora co-created their own calendar which showcases their work in truth, memory and reconciliation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ArchiCom Archives of Human Rights - talk at UNAD Symposium on Archives and Peace |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The project PI (Claire Taylor) and PDRA (Lucia Brandi) gave a talk at the Symposium Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory as Guarantees of Peace, held at the UNAD and streamed live online. They talked about the work that the project has done in supporting and training local community organisations to preserve their archives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | ArchiCom toolkit - launch event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Launch event on Sat 12 Dec 2021 for the toolkit our project designed and built: a toolkit, manual and practical guidance for community archives of human rights. The launch event was targeted at human rights organisations in Colombia and included an overview of the project, the launch and opening of the toolkit, an explanation of the manual and how to use it, a practical hands-on activity to create resources to preserve documents, and feedback from the NGOs who attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Audiencia Defensorial |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation by the PI and one of the RAs on the project to participate in the Audiencia Defensorial Por la Vida y los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres del Magdalena Medio [Ombudsman Hearing for the Life and Human Rights of Women in the Magdalena Medio Region] in March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Behind the Scenes at the Museum was an open day at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, with a series of events and activities directed to families, based around how curators care for their collections, including identifying museum pests, packing a delicate object, and taking part in a range of curatorial activities. The project PI ran workshops all day using the A Museum For Me products created by the project team. Participants created their own mini 3D museum to take home. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/exhibitions_events_tours/events/family/vgmsummerworkshop17thaugust.html |
| Description | Cinturón de Fuego: Colombia, Chile y Ecuador: Resonancias, el marco de las protestas y marchas 19-21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | (11.06.21) In collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD), various team members joined an online discussion on the protests and marches in Colombia, Chile y Ecuador 2019- 2021. There was much discussion and communication regarding related events and possible further activity evidenced by the live online chat - event now uploaded to YouTube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cxeVkk89Wc&t=7934s&ab_channel=UniversidadNacionalAbiertayaDistancia... |
| Description | Closing Ceremony Diplomado |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Closing Ceremony for the Diploma in Human Rights, Memory and Construction of Peace in Colombia, offered for free to low-income women victims of the conflict and women social leaders of the department of Boyacá. Diploma organized by the research team, through the Study Group in Feminisms, Genders and Human Rights GIEPEG - UPTC. The diploma forms part of the social projection (aka impact) activities. Key impacts include the women participants who successfully completed 120 hours of study and who were given knowledge and tools in the areas of human rights, gender perspectives, the body as political territory, IT tools, formulation of peace projects, amongst others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Co-creation workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Co-creation workshops with victims groups in Colombia (Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres & Zoscua), Bogotá, October 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Commemoration of International Women's Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A day-long event held on 23 March 2023 at the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Bogotá, to which the PI was invited. The event was focused around celebrating International Women's Day, and included: re-accreditation of the UNAD; keynote speech by the PI on Women, Victims and Representation in Colombia in the Framework of Postconflict Dynamics, covering findings of the project and analysis of the OFP museum; roundtable discussion including the PI on the role of women in the construction of post-conflict society; and hands-on workshop using Museum For Me materials led by the PI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Diaspora Here Community Engagement Day, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Community engagement day co-organised by the research project in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of International Slavery. The day involved an artist roundtable featuring local artists and filmmakers who have documented Liverpool's Black community, discussion with members of the community, Afro Caribbean and Latin American cuisine, an Afro-Latino musical performance, and a selection of activities including carnival headdresses, mask making as well as Museum for Me activities. Participants were encouraged to bring to the event artefacts, photographs, or any other objects that help them reflect about their lives as members of Liverpool´s culturally diverse landscape. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exhibition Launch at National Museum, Colombia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition Un Museo Para Mí: Representación en primera persona de mujeres víctimas del conflicto colombiano [A Museum For Me: First-Person Representation of Women Victims of the Colombian Conflict] launched at the National Museum, Bogota, Colombia, on 25 Feb 2020. Based on results of the AHRC-funded project, Memory, Victims and Representation of the Colombian Conflict, and also showcasing the products developed in the UKRI GCRF-funded project, Translation to Policy, Practice and Product for Low and Middle Income Countries. Exhibition launch includes participation from women victims from Corporación Zoscua de Boyacá, and Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres Thereafter, exhibition runs for 2 months, open to the public, comprising visits to the exhibition, and also hands-on activities with the museum products. Also includes focus groups with third sector organisations representing women victims, including: Afrodes Afrodes - La Comadre Hijos a Hijas por la Memoria y contra la Impunidad Mesa Autónoma de Victimas Indígenas Casa de la Mujer Asociación de Mujeres Víctimas y Profesionales |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited talk at Building Peace Through Culture Conference, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk by PI Claire Taylor based on the findings of her research on this grant, entitled 'Grassroots Monuments and Memory Practices in Colombia: the Memory Wall of Zoscua, Boyacá'. Sharing of findings with others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Irrandiando Paz: Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Podcast launch or ArchiCom 'Irrandiando Paz': Spanish-language show 'Somos con Cecilia Ramos' ALLFM 96.9 in UK to detail current and forthcoming community outreach and archival work in Colombia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/MVRColombia/status/1371374356862005252?s=20&t=lqCbJpl8xdgoP16CDJeI2g |
| Description | Jornada de la Investigación Presentation with UPTC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with the UPTC Claire Taylor and Ailsa Peate and other members of the @MVRColombia project team spoke at the XXV Jornada Investigación with a focus on feminisms, gender and human rights, generating much discussion and valuable feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/MVRColombia/status/1440577550116278274?s=20&t=XcWm4z1dIgNgPknVjhX6WA |
| Description | Launch event of Voces Invisibles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Launch of the digital artwork Invisible Voices/ Voces-Invisibles, a major co-created output arising from the grant and its research. It was launched by the Cultural Secretariat of the city of Cali, Colombia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.voces-invisibles.com |
| Description | Museum of Me workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This two-hour workshop was held at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, as part of the Tate Exchange. It consisted of participants working with activity packs, creating and mixing materials that represent their own experience. Inspired by the themes of collage and montage that run throughout this week of events, in this particular workshop, participants curatedown materials to produce their own Museum of Me. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/tate-exchange/workshop/tearing-past |
| Description | OFP Agendas Territoriales de Paz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The project team participated in the series of meetings 'Agendas Territoriales de la Paz' (Regional Peace Agendas) hosted by the OFP (Organizacion Femenina Popular/Popular Women's Organization), which comprised monthly meetings with various institutions involved in peace-building. The project team provided services to the meetings including note-taking and infographics design after each meeting. The project team also co-organised and contributed to the final meeting, giving overviews of the project, and avenues for future academia-civil society collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in Q&A on The Colombian Truth Commission's Final Report: 'Hopes and Challenges' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation by the PI for Q&A on The Colombian Truth Commission's Final Report: 'Hopes and Challenges' organised by Rodeemos el Dialogo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | PhD student talk: The disputed field of memory in Colombia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | One of the doctoral students co-supervised by our project, and based at the UPTC in Colombia, undertook a month-long Virtual Visiting Fellowship at the University of Liverpool under the guidance of the project PI. His name is Andrés Javier Bustos Ramírez and he gave a talk entitled 'The disputed field of memory in Colombia: An analysis from pedagogical experiences' based on his doctoral research to the research group Memory, Heritage & Conflict. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Plenary at AHGBI, Dublin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by the PI based on the findings of the project for plenary at AHGBI: 'Grassroots Monuments and Memory Practices in Colombia: Museum of the OFP and the Memory Wall of Zoscua, Boyacá' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at Transnational Memory Practices in the UK and South Korea - Ethics, Evaluation and Learning in Digital Exhibitions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The PI gave a talk about the project findings at the workshops for the Transnational Memory Practices in the UK and South Korea - Ethics, Evaluation and Learning in Digital Exhibitions project. The audience was academics, postgraduates, and museum professionals |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Radio programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Interview of the PI for the Educar para la paz radio programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ruv.unad.edu.co/index.php/academica/cibersofia/6468-educar-para-la-paz-desde-los-estudios-lat... |
| Description | Talk by visiting scholar Natalia Paloma |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk given by Natalia Palomá, doctoral student co-supervised by the project (hosted at the UPTC, Colombia, and co-supervised with the PI at Liverpool). Talk delivered on her research 'Ciencia, violencia y poder: las matemáticas y las comunidades marginales' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk for Colombia Doctoral Network UPTC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PI Claire Taylor gives seminar on Gender, Memory and Peace-Building for Colombian and international PhD students, hosted by the UPTC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/jM3XiWDpwQ0 |
| Description | Talk on grassroots monuments and memory practices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The project PI (Claire Taylor) was invited to speak at the British Academy -funded conference Building Peace Through Culture: Art, Memory, Landscape, Time, held at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, from 8-9 March 2022. She presented some of her recent findings resulting from the research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Television programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Television programme made by UPTC television channel about the project, including short interviews with the PI and CI, and overview of the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/universidaduptc/videos/411926749495200/ |
| Description | The Role of Women's Organisations in Reimagining Victims' Reparation in Colombia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk given by the PI on the topic of 'The Role of Women's Organisations in Reimagining Victims' Reparation in Colombia: the Case of the OFP' to the symposium-workshop 'Reimagining Victims' Reparation', held 16-17 May, University of Huddersfield, followed by discussions on synergies and planning for forthcoming grant applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Training Seminar on Methods and Theories for Research in Human Rights, Memory and Transitional Justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The PI delivered a training seminar on the topic of Methods and Theories for Research in Human Rights, Memory and Transitional Justice for research students at the Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica de Colombia on 22 March 2023. The seminar provided postgraduate students with an introduction to some of the key skills and methodologies they will require for researching these topics. It was based on the findings and methodologies of the PI's project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí y mis derechos: Zona Humanitaria (Bogotá) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MVRC team members took Un Museo Para Mí to schools and the streets during uprising and violence in Colombia 15.05.21: impacts included conversation and engagement regarding past and current violence and much discussion. NB. www.amuseumforme.org was launched in May 2020. The project has maintained and developed links to community and beneficiary groups; for example, the site has hosted content from the Colombian diaspora for Refugee Week in June 2020 and many commemorative days and international, collaborative events since. MfM workshops are not repeat events per se, but distinct in terms of location, collaborators, and context/location. Some may be based with a museum team in Colombia, for example, some are online, all are organised with different NGOs and MVRC partners, often with different, evolving museological methods and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/MVRColombia/status/1393513990785945601?s=20&t=XcWm4z1dIgNgPknVjhX6WA |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí: Casa de la Memoria: Spanish in Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí: Casa de la Memoria: Spanish in Society Lucia Brandi spoke on children's trilingual storybooks and Claire Taylor presented Un Museo Para Mí with a particular focus on the experiences of the Latin American diaspora communities in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.spanishinsociety.com/events |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí / A Museum for Me: Being Human Festival at The British Library |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí / A Museum for Me: Being Human Festival at The British Library 13.11.21 A day of workshops, presentations, dance and other activities at the British Library as part of the Being Human Festival. International collaborators contributed in person and online. NB. www.amuseumforme.org was launched in May 2020. The project has maintained and developed links to community and beneficiary groups; for example, the site has hosted content from the Colombian diaspora for Refugee Week in June 2020 and many commemorative days and international, collaborative events since. MfM workshops are not repeat events per se, but distinct in terms of location, collaborators, and context/location. Some may be based with a museum team in Colombia, for example, some are online, all are organised with different NGOs and MVRC partners, often with different, evolving museological methods and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bl.uk/events/a-museum-for-me-un-museo-para-m-at-the-british-library |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí con los colectivos: Escuela Popular Re-Creo y Colectivo de los Nadie |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí con los colectivos: Escuela Popular Re-Creo y Colectivo de los Nadie Team members in situ in Colombia taking Un Museo Para Mí safely into the streets during covid, to work with two new collectives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.amuseumforme.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Un-museo-de-Nadie-2.pdf |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí/A Museum for Me workshop: Cronton 6th Form College Day of Activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí/A Museum for Me workshop: Cronton 6th Form College Day of Activities with students and teachers in collaboration with representatives from Mujer Diáspora in the UK. NB. www.amuseumforme.org was launched in May 2020. The project has maintained and developed links to community and beneficiary groups; for example, the site has hosted content from the Colombian diaspora for Refugee Week in June 2020 and many commemorative days and international, collaborative events since. MfM workshops are not repeat events per se, but distinct in terms of location, collaborators, and context/location. Some may be based with a museum team in Colombia, for example, some are online, all are organised with different NGOs and MVRC partners, often with different, evolving museological methods and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/mvrcolombia/status/1377254124937433088 |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí/A Museum for Me: Casa de la Memoria (Tumaco) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí 03/03/21 Workshop hosted by Casa de la Memoria, Colombia. https://casamemoriatumaco.org/ NB. www.amuseumforme.org was launched in May 2020. The project has maintained and developed links to community and beneficiary groups; for example, the site has hosted content from the Colombian diaspora for Refugee Week in June 2020 and many commemorative days and international, collaborative events since. MfM workshops are not repeat events per se, but distinct in terms of location, collaborators, and context/location. Some may be based with a museum team in Colombia, for example, some are online, all are organised with different NGOs and MVRC partners, often with different, evolving museological methods and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.amuseumforme.org |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí: 'Una verdad sin fronteras': conversaciones con víctimas del conflicto |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí: 'Una verdad sin fronteras': conversaciones con víctimas del conflicto 04/03/2021 Online hosting of video of exiled women's testimony about the conflict in Colombia in tandem with the Comisión de la Verdad (Nodo EU) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.amuseumforme.org/listening-space-for-me/ |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí: Ludoescuela-Nuestra Escuela (Liverpool) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí: Ludoescuela-Nuestra Escuela. Two online Museum for Me-based activities for local schools during lockdown. Events took place on the 17th and 24th April 2021. NB. www.amuseumforme.org was launched in May 2020. The project has maintained and developed links to community and beneficiary groups; for example, the site has hosted content from the Colombian diaspora for Refugee Week in June 2020 and many commemorative days and international, collaborative events since. MfM workshops are not repeat events per se, but distinct in terms of location, collaborators, and context/location. Some may be based with a museum team in Colombia, for example, some are online, all are organised with different NGOs and MVRC partners, often with different, evolving museological methods and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/MVRColombia/status/1382970299164061698 |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí: Memory, Heritage and Language: presentation and roundtable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí: Memory, Heritage and Language: A Symposium: presentation and roundtable with two MVRC team members on 'A Museum for Me: Self-Curation, Public Engagement and Museology Practices' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event/?eventid=98494 |
| Description | Un Museo Para Mí: Museo Nacional de Colombia: Familias |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Un Museo Para Mí: Museo Nacional de Colombia: Familias Adapted family-oriented and theatre-themed downloadable workshops for working from home in lockdown NB. www.amuseumforme.org was launched in May 2020. The project has maintained and developed links to community and beneficiary groups; for example, the site has hosted content from the Colombian diaspora for Refugee Week in June 2020 and many commemorative days and international, collaborative events since. MfM workshops are not repeat events per se, but distinct in terms of location, collaborators, and context/location. Some may be based with a museum team in Colombia, for example, some are online, all are organised with different NGOs and MVRC partners, often with different, evolving museological methods and outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://museonacional.gov.co/noticias/Paginas/Museo_para_mi.aspx |
| Description | Un Museo para Mí at the Centro Infantil Menchú, Casa Latina, in London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 16th November 2019, the project ran the activity Un Museo para Mí at the Centro Infantil Menchú in London, as part of the Being Human Festival 2019. The activities were directed to the Latin American diaspora in London. In this three-hour session, participants worked with activity packs informed by work done by the research project. The activity Un Museo para Mí engages with how museums have traditionally been thought of as spaces where objects important for our understanding of where we're from are researched, conserved, and exhibited. However, museums are changing - instead of providing a focus on the past with a mainly male-centric narrative (hence the etymology of 'patrimonio', in Spanish), museums now incorporate the stories and histories of women, children, minority groups and others who have gone unrepresented: museums are spaces where all people are welcome to talk about a shared past, problems in the present, and our future. During the event, members curated and created their own materials, thought about the objects and images that represent them and their memories, and created their own mini-museum. The purpose of the workshop was to encourage women in the Latin American diaspora to think about issues such as museums and identity; museums as part of national or transnational identity; and the curation of personal memory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/museum-of-me/ |
| Description | Un Museo para mí Exhibition in Tunja, Colombia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Mixed-media exhibition of creative and artistic outputs arising from the project, inaugurated at the Noche de los Museos (aka Light Night) in Tunja, Colombia, on 15 November 2019, and running until 27 November. Held at the Museo Casa Cultural Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Co-organised with the Grupo de Estudios en Feminismos, Géneros y Derechos Humanos -GIEPEG- UPTC, and Rafaela Riaño from ZOSCUA, and including participation of 2 women victims. Average footfall of 70 people per day. Type of public attending: families; school pupils; university students; elderly people attending a programme run by the Alcaldía de Tunja (Tunja Town Hall). Impact included: visibilising for the public the issues related to victims of the Colombian armed conflict; showcasing the co-creation works that have been created by the project to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual Conference: Memory and Representation in Latin America Congreso Virtual: Memoria y Representación en América Latina: Day 1 (08.04.21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | MVRC team members organised and participated in the Virtual Conference: Memory and Representation in Latin America / Congreso Virtual: Memoria y Representación en América Latina: Day 1 (08.04.21) Much debate, follow-on conversation and plans for further research as well as grass-roots projects as delegates interacted during the conference, regardless of potential online limitations in lockdown. Activity: The Sew and Talk Cultural Projects Discussion Workshop - Moderator: Dr Lucia Brandi (University of Liverpool). Speakers: Prof Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth University), Dr Lorna Dillon (Ulster University), Dr Danielle House (University of Reading) Jimena Pardo Zamora (Independent); Panel: Memory, Violence and Representation: Moderator: Prof Matthew Brown (University of Bristol). Speakers: Prof Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Prof Thea Pitman, Alejandro Valderrama Herrera; Prof Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick): Remembering Violence in Trujillo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia: The Parque-Monumento and Eco-Memory; Prof Thea Pitman (University of Leeds): Occupy MAM!: Indigenous Curatorial Agency in the Arte Eletrônica Indígena Exhibition'; Alejandro Valderrama Herrera (independent): More than a witness; Panel: Conversatorio - Las grandes alamedas with Bárbara Palomino Ruiz (in online conversation with Patricio Vogel, Chile). Panel: Conflict Textiles Workshop - Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared. Speakers: Roberta Bacic, Founder of Conflict Textiles and Breege Doherty: Panel: Memoria y cultura popular - Dra Celina de Jesús Trimiño Vásquez, Prof Kristine Vanden Berghe, Dr Boris Alfonso Salinas Arias, Elías Robles; Prof Kristine Vanden Berghe (Université de Liège): "Disfruta la verdadera aventura salvaje". De la Hacienda Nápoles al Parque temático; Dr Boris Alfonso Salinas Arias (Red de Universidades Estatales de Colombia, RUDECOLOMBIA, Universidad de Tolima); Música Pop de Colombia, Memoria y Educación para la paz; Elías Robles Andrade (Museo Legislativo Sentimientos de la Nación): Programa Tardes de cine club; historia y memoria; Panel: Memory, Women and Agency - Dr Isabelle Gribomont (University of Liverpool): The Representation of Women in the Context of the Colombian Conflict: A Corpus-Assisted Comparison of the Discourse issued by La Ruta Pacífica and the Colombian Press; Bridget Blankley (University of Birmingham): In Her Footsteps: Shoes as Counter-Memorials for the Disappeared: Prof Katy Jenkins, Dr Antonia Carcelen and Juanita Bone (Northumbria University): Harnessing Afro-Ecuadorian women's heritage to promote peaceful and equitable development in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Panel: Memoria y pedagogía - with William Ernesto Condiza Plazas (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia), Lina Margarita Remolina Granados, Andrés Javier Bustos Ramírez, Andrés Gómez Barrera; Lina Margarita Remolina Granados (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Fragmentos de memoria: experiencias museales en el contexto de la Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia; Andrés Javier Bustos Ramírez (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Memoria en la escuela colombiana: un campo en disputa. Un análisis a partir de experiencias educativas; Andrés Gómez Barrera (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Tensiones en la formación ciudadana escolar en Colombia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/mediafiles/1575_Conference%20Programme_FINAL.pdf |
| Description | Virtual Conference: Memory and Representation in Latin America Congreso Virtual: Memoria y Representación en América Latina: Day 2 (09.04.21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | MVRC team members organised and participated in the Virtual Conference: Memory and Representation in Latin America / Congreso Virtual: Memoria y Representación en América Latina: Day 2 (09.04.21) Much debate, follow-on conversation and plans for further research as well as grass-roots projects as delegates interacted during the conference, regardless of potential online limitations in lockdown. Activity: Interactive Workshop - The Imaginary Constitution of Conflict in Latin America with Dr Jordana Blejmar, Dr Philippa Page (Newcastle University) Dr Nick Morgan, Dr Cecilia Sosa (Royal Holloway) Dr Eduardo Restrepo; Panel: Memoria, ciudadanía y educación - David Felipe Alarcón Ospina (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Estado, memoria y educación en Colombia: Itinerarios de una cuestión irresuelta; Jorge Fernando Vargas Cruz (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Deserción escolar en periodo de pandemia Tunja año 2020 y estrategias de permanencia en las instituciones educativas oficiales Tunja; Laura Marcela Caballero León (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Violencia escolar: Discursos y Subjetividad en la Escuela; Panel: Memory and Transitional Justice - David Rojinsky, (independent): Transnational Memory and the Guatemalan Civil War; Camilo Tamayo Gómez (Birmingham City University): Victims' politics of memory as a Transitional Justice Mechanism: Addressing the Role of Local Communities in the Configuration of their Memory Regimes after the War; Dr Cherilyn Elston (University of Reading): Gender, Memory and Grassroots Transitional Justice in Colombia: the Case of Antígonas, Tribunal de Mujeres. Panel: Memoria y Derechos - Dr Celina de Jesús Trimiño Vásquez, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia: Derechos Humanos, Memoria y Paz, Aportes desde una Perspectiva de Género. Experiencia situada en Colombia; Lineth Katherine Coronado Vitolo, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia: Memorias de mujeres sobrevivientes del conflicto armado en Colombia y la vulneración de sus derechos humanos; Rubén Chababo, Universidad Nacional de Rosario / Museo Internacional para la Democracia, Argentina: Imagen y poder: borrar/eliminar lo que no debe ser visto; Dr Alba Lucia Cruz Castillo (Universidad de La Salle): Sanación del dolor en procesos de violencia sexual y desplazamiento en Colombia: una experiencia desde el saber afrocolombiano. Event: Colectiva artística: Hada Candelaria and Angélica Quintero. Panel: Memory, Solidarity and Justice - Dr Edward Paulino (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and Dr Megan Jeanette Myers (Iowa State University): The Border of Lights Reader: Memorializing the 1937 Haitian Massacre in a Digital Format; Dr Brigid Lynch (University of St. Andrews); Reanimating Solidarity: Postmemory and Post-Fordist Plasticity in Nae Pasarán (2018); Alexandra Garcia Marrugo, University of Sydney: 'Dead of a Lesser God': Victims' Voice and Representation in the Colombian Press. Panel: Memory and Cinema - Dr Niamh Thornton (University of Liverpool): Traces of the Aftermath: Uses of the Perpetrator Archive in Mexican Film; Dr Jordana Blejmar (University of Liverpool): (Over)Exposed Bodies: Photography, Identity and Representation in Fernández Mouján's Damiana Kryggi (2012); Dr María Antonia Vélez Serna (University of Stirling): Extractive seeing in Colombian cinema's archival turn; Dr Gabriele Biotti (London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research): Telling memories. The Uruguayan Military Dictatorship under the lens of documentary cinema; Dr Maria Chiara D'Argenio (University College London): Haunting, Memory and Spectatorship in La Llorona (Bustamante, 2019). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/mediafiles/1575_Conference%20Programme_FINAL.pdf |
| Description | Virtual Conference: Memory and Representation in Latin America Congreso Virtual: Memoria y Representación en América Latina: Day 3 (10.04.21) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | MVRC team members organised and participated in the Virtual Conference: Memory and Representation in Latin America / Congreso Virtual: Memoria y Representación en América Latina: Day 3 (10.04.21) Much debate, follow-on conversation and plans for further research as well as grass-roots projects as delegates interacted during the conference, regardless of potential online limitations in lockdown. Colombian NGO Roundtable: Formas de Hacer Memoria desde las Organizaciones Sociales. Panelistas: Marina Gallego Zapata (Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres), Rafaela Riaño (ZOSCUA), Silvia Yañez (Organización Femenina Popular, OFP), Diana Marcela Gómez Correal (Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y Contra la Impunidad), Delia Caicedo Álvarez (Fundación Guagua), Marta Hinestroza (Nodo) Panel: Artistic Expressions/Creativity - Moderator: Dr Lorna Dillon Valeria Posada Villada (Museo Nacional de Colombia): Changing the Representation of War: Former Combatants and the role of art in redrawing Colombia's Conflict; Dr Alba Griffin (Newcastle University): The everydayness of political violence in Bogotá's graffiti and street art; Dr José Sherwood González (University of Leeds): Breaking Tezcatlipoca: A Graphic Ethnography of Mexican Family Mythos; Catalina Delgado Rojas (University of Manchester): Fragmentos: Colombia's first state-sponsored counter-monument. Panel: Memoria y género - Paula Rodríguez (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): De víctima a sobreviviente del conflicto colombiano: relatos de una mujer de aquitania, Boyacá; Jeimmy Milena Redon Briceño (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Las Mujeres de la Guerra Verde; William Ernesto Condiza Plazas (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia): Pedagogía de la Memoria: género y memoria en debate. Panel: Memory and the Archive - Dr Cara Levey (University College Cork): Archiving the Repertoire, Performing the Archive: Virtual Iterations of Second-Generation Activism in Post-Dictatorship Argentina; Dr Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster): Issues of Representation in Miss Museo: Mujer, Nación, Identidad y Ciudadanía (2007); María Catalina Venegas Raba (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London): 'Writing' an imagined Bogota in Proa. Carlos Martinez, Luz Amorocho and the 'edited project' for the urban renovation of the city (1946 - 1949). Panel: Memory and Digital Heritage - Claire Taylor, Lucia Brandi and Cecilia Andrea Acosta Sánchez, University of Liverpool, and Marcelo Díaz Vallejo (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana): ArchiCom: Capacity-Building and Community Archives of Human Rights in Colombia; Sebastián Bustamante-Brauning (University of Bristol): Digital Memory Platforms from Latin America: (digital) memory objects from Chile's Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos; Dr Olga Sorzano Montana (Royal Holloway): Corpografias': a digital memory of embodied practices in the Colombian Pacific Coast; Guillermo Labrador y Daniel Albarracín (Rodeemos el Diálogo y Tiempos Viajeros): El futuro de la memoria histórica en Colombia; un proceso desde las humanidades digitales. Launch of: 'Voces Invisibles: Mujeres Victimas del conflicto colombiano' y la aplicación MVIC (Mujeres voces invisibles del conflicto) with Dra María Mencía (Kingston University), Dra Claudia Liliana Zúñiga-Cañón (Universidad Santiago de Cali Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/mediafiles/1575_Conference%20Programme_FINAL.pdf |
| Description | What Does the Future Hold For Colombia? Discussing Colombia's Truth Commission Final Report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PI co-organised this event in collaboration with colleagues in Liverpool Hope University and the University of Huddersfield. The Colombian Truth Commission's final report acknowledges massive human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law during more than six decades of armed conflict in Colombia. It presents a comprehensive narrative, amplifying the voices of victims and survivors in the country and exiled abroad. The main aim of this report is to fully understand the different cycles of violence in Colombia, identify causes and consequences, and start open conversations regarding the future of the country. The final report makes recommendations to ensure the non-recurrence of violence, having victims' needs at the centre of these recommendations. This event organised by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre, The University of Huddersfield and The University of Liverpool, brought multiple and diverse civil society, academic voices and Truth Commission representatives to reflect on Colombia's Truth Commission final report and its recommendations. It addressed different perspectives on the challenging implementation of the report's recommendations with the aim of recognising the crucial role of victims and civil society in general to claim justice, truth, and reparation in post-conflict Colombia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | XVII International Research Day, UPTC, Tunja, Colombia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The CI organised an international research day at the UPTC, Colombia, at which several members of the research team presented, as well as doctoral and masters students, and community groups involved in the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |