September 21 — Making The Memory Sacred panel at NYU A/P/A Institute

Excerpts from the Making The Memory Sacred — Art Human Rights and Community panel that took place at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute during the Asian American Arts Alliance Locating the Sacred Festival on September 21, 2012. How can public art, activism,

Mural of Pain

— Peter Lucas Photographs, being made of paper, are fragile things in this world. In time they inevitably turn yellow, they begin to crack, and fade away into the anonymous hues of dusk. Memory is also fragile. People everywhere hold

The House of Histories

The House of History is a short documentary made by eight cameramen from Afghan Films, the national film institute of Afghanistan, during the turbulent years of 1993-95. The first ten minutes of this film combine poetic narration and stark images

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews will complete the memorial complex of which it is part. It stands on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto and Jewish neighborhood of prewar Warsaw. It faces the Monument to the Warsaw

Steve Zeitlin

As a folklorist, I sometimes speak metaphorically about “cultural capital” and “social currency.”  But what if there were an actual currency of memory and meaning? This unit might be called a myen, a unit backed not by gold bullion, but

Hiroshi Sunairi

“Nature tells us with no ideological standpoint about war, atomic bombs, peace, nature, and the environment.”

– Dr. Chikara Horiguchi Over sixty years ago, the city of Hiroshima was burnt to ashes by one nuclear bomb and people thought that nothing