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The Digital Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada: The poetics, politics and silences of exhibiting

  • Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Volos (map)

What is recognized and established as an official migratory narrative? Who is entitled to narrate the history of immigration? Which aspects of this history are or should be highlighted and which ones are or should be silenced? And how an anthropologist converts oral testimonies and silences into exhibition items for a digital museum?

In this talk, Dr. Alexandra Siotou discusses the politics of representation and the possibilities and limitations regarding the exhibition of oral testimonies in a digital museum.