A colloquium at King’s College London, hosted by King’s Past, organised by Hannah Dawson, Érika Melek Delgado, and Sarah Limb, and supported by Medicine and the Making of Race.

How do institutions and communities remember, and reckon with, their pasts? How might they engage meaningfully with their legacies, and build a reparative present? Who and what do we choose to make visible from history, and how do we turn back the tide of forgetting without fixing a painful past in stone? This colloquium brings together people from universities, business, archives, heritage and culture, and from across the Atlantic, to consider methodologies of memorialisation and reparation.

The colloquium is organised by King’s Past, directed by Hannah Dawson and Érika Melek Delgado – a project exploring the history of King’s College London, and working collaboratively nationally and internationally to develop good practice in the field of history and memory. One of King’s Past’s activities is the development of technology to create virtual statues, thereby reanimating public space with people who have been forgotten, and who hover alongside figures cast in bronze. The event will showcase the first of these Virtual Statues.

The event marks the launch of Medicine and the Making of Race’s ‘Researching institutional involvement in transatlantic slavery: a guide for archivists, researchers & institutional stakeholders’.

More details on the event can be found here.