Angela Failler

Culture and Public Memory

Principal investigators: Failler, Angela

Keywords: culture; cultural studies; memory studies; Canadian studies; public memory; social change; social justice; memorials; museums; cultural production; artworks; official memory; pedagogy and the art of memory; difficult knowledge; histories of violence; reconciliation and redress; human rights; Indigenous rights; anti-racism

Thinking Through the Museum: A partnership approach to curating difficult knowledge in public

Keywords: partnership development; interdisciplinary collaboration; partnered knowledge mobilization; museums; education; difficult knowledge; public engagement; curatorial practices; Indigenous knowledge; diverse communities

Culture and Public Memory

Principal investigators: Failler, Angela

Museum queeries: intersectional interventions into museum cultures and practices

Principal investigators: Milne, Heather

Keywords: research workshop; museum studies; curatorial practices; LGBTTQ communities; Indigenous two-spirit; decolonization; human rights education; anti-racism; public education; collaboration; cultural institutions; public engagement; Aboriginal research

Canada Research Chair in Culture and Public Memory

Principal investigators: Failler, Angela

Keywords: culture, cultural studies, canadian studies, public memory, social change, social justice, memorials, museums, cultural production, official memory, pedagogy and the arts of memory, difficult knowledge, histories of violence, reconciliation and redress, human rights, indigenous rights, anti-racism

Caring for difficult knowledge: human rights in contemporary museum and curatorial practice

Principal investigators: Failler, Angela

Keywords: research workshop; Canadian museum for human rights; museum studies; curatorial practices; human rights education; difficult knowledge; collaboration; cultural institutions; public history; public engagement

Difficult knowledge in public: thinking through the museum

Principal investigators: Failler, Angela

Keywords: partnership development; interdisciplinary collaboration; partnered knowledge mobilization; museums; education; difficult knowledge; public engagement; curatorial practices; Canadian museum for human rights; indigenous knowledge; diverse communities

Building communities of memory: remembrance practice after the 1985 Air India bombings

Principal investigators: Failler, Angela

Keywords: 1985 Air India bombings; terrorism; remembrance practice; public memory; collective memory; memorialization; politics of memory; Canadian identity; South Asian diaspora; multiculturalism; communities of memory; politics of mourning; historical trauma