HISTORIES-CLUSTER.UBC.CA

This Research Cluster was founded to pursue work in multiple disciplines and institutional settings that proceeds from an understanding that the questions we ask about our time must engage full and evidence-based understandings of the past, and, at the same time, that present-day concerns continually shape and inform our engagement with that past. We also recognized, simultaneously, alternative claims upon the past that do not operate under the call of "history."... The past is not gone, and the present is undergirded in complex and sometime indirect ways by what has been. This research cluster entailed ethical engagement with the multiple temporalities and modalities of historical research, seeking to resist the simple merging of the historical into the needs of the present, while at the same time acknowledging the urgency of the past's relationship to now. Our goal was to build capabilities and connections that bring together multiple stakeholders--researchers, artists, activists,..