Presenting Making Histories into the ICMEMOHRI Conference (International Committee of Memory Museum and Human Rights).
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ICMEMOHR, together with the General Directorate of Historical Memory of the Ministry of the Presidency, have organized a conference in Madrid on European Democratic Memory. For several days and in various cities and Memory spaces, conferences, round tables and visits to museums and memorials have been organized. The underlying discussion is the establishment of alternative and restorative narratives for conflictive periods. Colonialism and current racism, mechanisms and indicators of reparation and rehabilitation, recognition and victimhood. How to generate and present alternative narratives, are just some of the interesting topics that have been discussed. With the background discussion about whether knowing history is enough to not repeat it.
The Colombian philosopher Pablo de Grieff, current rapporteur of the United Nations, reflected on the factors of change in culture and the importance of formal and informal education, highlighting concepts of transitional and redistributive justice, awareness of rights-holders, and recognition public of history. Our friend and colleague, Zahava Doering, gave a fantastic and critical presentation on the relevance and research methods of memorial audiences, differentiating for example between concepts such as ‘remenbrance’, ‘diss-remenbrance’, and ‘miss-remenbrance’.
Probably the closest part of MH’s project was titled ‘Colonialism as part of the European Memoria’, coordinated by Robert Verhoff, European Assessor in Memoria and Heritage. Bart Ouvry, former director of the AfricanMuseum in Brussels, led the shift from a museum of nationalism to one working for and with Africans. Currently, their first museum space is based on current racism in Europe. “Decolonization” is not a process of objects, but of narratives of dialogue and co-creation. Marieke Van Bommel, co-director of the National Museum of World Cultures in Holland, explained the process of change in our colonial museums of an ethnographic nature, in the way that the museums change because the societies change. Domenique Taffin, from the Foundation of the Memory of Slavery, in Paris, defended our new discourses in museums because the themes of colonialism and racism are unfortunately are current themes.
You can follow the ICMEMORHI committee’s approach to memory on its website (https://icmemo.mini.icom.museum). The Peace Museum of Gernika is also member of this committee. We were discussing with the chair, Jane Klinger (USA), the past chair, Ophelia Leon (UK), how to establish synergies between these network and the MH project.
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