RENKEI PAX
RENKEI PAX was a working group developed as a collaboration between the University of Liverpool and Ritsumeikan University in Japan.
It ran two workshops: "Enslaving the Mind", in Kyoto, between 14-23 November 2016, and "Emancipating the Mind", in Liverpool, between 17-26 August 2017.
The below blogs were written by some of the participants and speakers of the RENKEI PAX workshops. They shared some of the insights and reflections they had following their time together.
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Enslaving the mind
Professor Monte Cassim discusses the theme of the first workshop.
Commemoration and remembrance
Professor Alex Balch discusses how the two workshops aided collaborative work.
Meaningless history
Goki Atoyama on the distinctions between the terms ‘history’ and ‘memory’.
Stars in the darkness
Polina Ivanova on how former slaves could achieve impressive social status.
Presented past
Lyu Xiaoyan on the use of exhibitions to present the dark past.
A museum comparison
Xiaoyang Hao compares the International Slavery Museum and AMA Museum.
Zero tolerance for modern slavery
Edward Missanjo on human trafficking in sustainable forest management.
History, memory and power
Mart Kurismaa asks, 'How do we conceptualise slavery?' and, 'Why even study it to begin with?'
An untold story?
Yahya Almasri on slavery in the Middle East and North Africa.
Memory recovery and justice
Juliette Doman asks if it is possible to decolonise the past.