Koju Kojwang, a musical artist, performs his song Generations.
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is a professor at the School of Social Work. Pilar is an anthropologist whose scholarly work explores the understanding of how mass violence is experienced in the everyday.
Linc Kesler is currently on secondment as the Director of the UBC First Nations House of Learning and Senior Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Affairs.
Paolo Vignolo has a PhD in History and Civilizations from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France and a Masters in Sociology of Culture from the National Univesity of Colombia. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of History and at the Center of Social Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. He is an expert in Latin American history and has conducted extensive research on orality and performance, carnivals and urban memory sites.
Ayu Ratih is a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program, at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on Indonesian womens' history, social memory and national identity. Before she came to Vancouver she worked as a human rights activist who advocates for the rights of victims of mass violence in Indonesia.
Erika Diettes is a Colombian visual artist and has a Master’s Degree in Anthropology. Her artistic production, linked from the very onset to photography, explores the memory, the pain, and death, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Larry Grant, Musqueam Elder, was born and raised in Musqueam traditional territory by a traditional hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam family. After 4 decades as a tradesman, Larry enrolled in the First Nations Languages Program, which awoke his memory of the embedded value that the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language has to self-identity, kinship, culture, territory, and history prior to European contact.
Peter Morin, a Tahltan Nation artist, curator and writer, is getting ready to perform at the longhouse. Peter explores issues of de-colonization and indigenous identity and language.
Elder Larry Grant receiving a gift as thanks for participating in the roundtable discussion and sharing his memories.
Juliane Okot Bitek holds a Master’s Degree in English and a BFA in Creative Writing, and is currently a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Students Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia’s Liu Institute for Global Issues. Her doctoral research focuses on the impact of social forgetting on citizenship through the exploration of the quiet story of a 1979 naval accident where several Ugandan exiles lost their lives.
Anson Ching is doing a master degree in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He focuses his thoughts on deliberative democracy, pragmatic ethics, the theory and story of human rights, and creative fiction.
María Emma Wills Obregón is a political scientist and advisor to the Director of the National Center of Historical Memory. She has published book chapters on topics including politics, the Colombian peace process, and President Alvaro Uribe’s government and gender equality, as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Erin Baines is an Associate Professor at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. She focuses on questions of gender, social repair and responsibility after mass violence.
From right to left:
Kamari Maxine Clarke, Anson Ching, Victor Igreja, Beverly Jacobs, Ayu Ratih, and John Russo.
