What should be said and shown?

In this class, we will examine a ‘case study’ of curating difficult knowledge, focused on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Visit Museum’s website: https://humanrights.ca/

Readings

1. 1. Lehrer, Erica, and Cynthia E. Milton. “Introduction: Witnesses to witnessing.” Curating Difficult Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2011. 1-19.
   2. Lehrer, Erica. “Thinking through the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.” American Quarterly 67.4 (2015): 1195-1216.
   3. Simon, R. I. (2011). A shock to thought: Curatorial judgment and the public exhibition of ‘difficult knowledge’. Memory Studies, 4(4), 432-449.
   4. Dhamoon, R. K. (2016). Re-presenting Genocide: The Canadian Museum of Human Rights and Settler Colonial Power. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 1(1), 5-30.
   5. Dean, Amber, & Failler, Angela. (2021). ‘An Amazing Gift’? Memory entrepreneurship, settler colonialism and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Memory Studies, 14(2), 451-465.