INTERNATIONAL CULTURE OF REMEMBRANCE SYMPOSIUM

Inaugural Symposium showcases progress, innovations, trends, and achievements in memorial culture, and transform thought into action

onePULSE Foundation is presenting an inaugural International Culture of Remembrance Symposium in collaboration with Cultural Vistas on June 10 and 11 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST at UCF Downtown, 500 West Livingston Street, Orlando, Florida.

The Symposium, part of the annual Pulse Remembrance Week, brings together leading international scholars and experts in memorial culture to provide a multidisciplinary platform to enrich and showcase progress, innovations, trends, and achievements in memorial culture, and turn thought into action.

Collaborating partners include Cultural Vistas, a nonprofit exchange organization promoting global understanding and collaboration among individuals and institutions, and its “Building a Diverse and Inclusive Culture of Remembrance (DAICOR) program, a reciprocal (U.S. & Germany) transatlantic exchange program, administered with the Heinrich Boell Foundation. Additional partners include the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida, which uses the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, the only global network of historic sites, museums and memory initiatives that connects past struggles to today’s movements for human rights, is a presenting partner.

The two-day event includes speakers from onePULSE Foundation, Cultural Vistas, Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center, 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Pasaje Begona Asociación (Spain), Oklahoma City National Memorial, Arkansas Peace & Justice Memorial Movement, Constitution Hill Human Rights Precinct (South Africa), University of Hamburg, and Aspen Institute.

Remembrance culture comes from a group or the collective actions of a society, which seeks to keep the past alive and make them present. It considers cultural artifacts that are less emphasized or forgotten but provide valuable insight and linkage to historical social order narratives. It is an inclusive narrative that examines who speaks for whom and about what exploring topics such as the heritage versus history conundrum. It is with the acknowledgement that past issues are very much contemporary issues.

To register to attend the inaugural International Culture of Remembrance Symposium for free in-person or virtually, please visit: Register Here. Space is limited. To take advantage of a special room rate click visit: OnePULSE Cultural Symposium.