RENKEI Blog
The below blogs were written by some of the participants and speakers of the RENKEI PAX workshops, that took place in September 2016 at Ritsumeikan University and August 2017 at the University of Liverpool. The blog posts share some of the insights and reflections participants had following their time together. We look forward to sharing more of the outputs of this collaboration as they further develop.
Enslaving the Mind
Professor Monte Cassim discusses the 'Enslaving the Mind' PAX Workshop that took place at Ritsumeikan University...
The RENKEI PAX workshops
Professor Alex Balch discusses how the two PAX workshops provided an excellent platform for collaborative work...
Meaningless History
Goki Atoyama discusses the distinctions between the terms ‘history’ and ‘memory’...
Stars in the Darkness
Polina Ivanova discusses how former slaves could achieve impressive social status...
Presented Past
Lyu Xiaoyan reflects on the use of exhibitions to present the dark past...
A Museum Comparison
Xiaoyang Hao Compares the International Slavery Museum and AMA Museum...
Modern Slavery
Edward Missanjo discusses Human Trafficking in Sustainable Forest Management...
Why Study Slavery?
Mart Kurismaa asks 'how do we conceptualise slavery?' & 'why even study it to begin with?'...
Memory Recovery & Justice
Juliette Doman questions if it is possible to decolonise the past...