Tigermedia - Museums as Places of Trauma and Healing: Processing Visitor Experiences
Museums as Places of Trauma and Healing: Processing Visitor Experiences
Date: September 30th, 2021
Duration:
1h:0m:24s
This lecture was recorded on September 30, 2021 and is part of the “Human Rights and the Museum” Series, a collaboration between the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program at Queensborough Community College (QCC). Memorial museums and atrocity site memorials dedicated to educating visitors about human rights violations and genocide can often become spaces that are emotionally triggering. Museum staff are tasked to design exhibits and programs that present these difficult histories while also helping visitors navigate the difficult feelings they may experience. And yet, the teams who work within these spaces on a daily basis can also become traumatized. In this conversation, Dr. Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman, Senior Program Director of the Global Transitional Justice Initiative at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, discusses historical trauma and the strategies museum workers use to create spaces of healing for themselves, as well as their visitors. This event was co-sponsored by the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center.
The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) hosts a range of programs about Holocaust memory and its ongoing impact across, as well as relevancy to, societies around the world through annual commemorations, special events, student-focused initiatives, our National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) colloquia series, and lectures about our originally researched exhibitions. For more information about the KHC, please visit http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu