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Partners

The network has worked with a variety of non-academic partners across Latin America.

The network has worked with a variety of non-academic partners across Latin America, including: funded collaborations with international partners (Petrópolis City Council, Museu Paulista-USP and the Museu da Imagem e do Som/MIS-Campinas) in Brazil led by Shaw which have made major interventions in interdisciplinary medical humanities projects addressing memory, dementia, and older adult care; in Chile, a project led by Riethof is working closely with community archives of solidarity to preserve these archives for the future.

In Mexico Thornton has worked with museums, including the Museo Nacional de la Revolución and the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, and the national film archive and is working on a project in Liverpool addressing identity, self-definition, and communication using a Mexican film star as a focal point. She has links with the Universidad de Guadalajara, the Universidad de Monterrey, Guadalajara, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Claire Taylor has worked with local community and activist groups representing women victims, including the Organización Femenina Popular, the Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres, Fundación Guagua and Corporación Zoscua, to co-create mixed-media artworks that represent the experience of women victims, and to create a toolkit, manual and training for the preservation of community archives of human rights; also with national museums across Colombia to create museum products to engage visitors with human rights. For more information see https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/research-themes/transforming-conflict/representation-of-colombian-conflict/

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