Abstract:

Kacel pi Nippo (Together in Memory) is a series of testimonial tapestries created by women following their abduction, forced marriage, and pregnancy during the war in northern Uganda. The tapestry maker’s children, born in captivity, supported their mothers in the planning, design and making of the tapestries, recording visual, narrative, and audio to document the process. The collective process of rolling, varnishing, and fashioning handmade paper beads into tapestries is a modality intergenera

Speaker Bio:

Erin Baines is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the politics of storytelling and questions of justice and responsibility following sexual and gender based violence in war. She is the co-director of the Transformative Memory International Network a collective of artists, activists and scholars engaged with the work of memory as a force field and activation of alternate pathways for re-imagining how to be together in the afterlives of mass violence.