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The Digital Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada: The poetics, politics and silences of exhibiting
May
8
4:00 PM16:00
Talks, Lecture

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)
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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.

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Apr
17
4:00 PM16:00
Talks, Lecture

Exhibiting silences: an anthropological approach of the curatorial practices of the Digital Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada

  • Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens (map)
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In this talk Dr. Alexandra Siotou examines how digital technologies define the gathering of research data in an oral history program and how they contribute to the display of unheard voices as well as to the production of new silences in the context of a digital museum. 

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