Memory and History
Getting involved...
WITNESSES’ MEMORY
historians’ questions
Enter the historian's workshop!
With microphones and cameras in hand, we will meet people who have been involved in various solidarity movements from the 1970s to the present day. What motivated them? What were the concrete effects of their mobilisation? How can their words and experiences be reproduced in a historical documentary? How can their words be analysed in the light of archival sources?
The "History and Memory" workshop allows you to go behind the scenes of historical research, to learn the methods of interviewing historical witnesses, to understand the relationship between the historian and the memory of the actors of the past, and to acquire skills in digital storytelling. Finally, you will create a short historical film - (6-7 minute video)- mixing the voice of the witness with your own to contextualise their experience, while enriching the narrative with archival material.
A series of two-month workshops organised between September 2023 and April 2024 for secondary II students (but also open to secondary I students) as part of the classroom curriculum.
Educators and teachers are invited to contact the workshop leader, Renata Latała
renata.latala@unige.ch
Workshops' facilitator and coordinator Renata Latała
