Events
Every year, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience hosts dozens of webinars, workshops, and trainings focused on urgent topics related to memorialization, human rights, transitional justice, museums, historic sites, and much more.
These virtual offerings are generally open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Please check here regularly to register.
To view recordings of previous sessions, please click here.
Addressing the Silences: Reflecting on Exclusions in Your Organization
The first step of external change is internal reflection. In this webinar you will hear stories and frameworks for organizational reflection. ICSC and project participants will share an assessment tool to assist attendees in beginning to reflect on their organization’s community representation and engagement. You’ll learn ways of identifying and describing communities that recognize their complexities and interests. Project participants will also share how and why they decided on one community of focus and began identifying potential partners.
This webinar is the first of three in a series that share stories and tools for reflection, collaboration, and internal change as the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience leads a cohort of thirteen museums and community partners across the United States in Addressing the Silences, a three-year project intended to help sites create ever deeper, more meaningful relationships in their communities. Since first coming together in late 2022, project participants have worked to – foster co-creation with their communities and correct silences and absences in their institutions so that they can better leverage their extraordinary capacity to serve as spaces for reflection and centers for positive social change.
Addressing the Silences: Building Reciprocal Relationships
In this session ICSC and project participants will share frameworks and strategies for building reciprocal community partnerships. You’ll hear about the relationship building activities between the museums and community partners that began with getting to know each other personally before diving into a project together. We will also share how institutions can intentionally share power with partners, how to identify a larger shared purpose with your partner, and important ingredients needed to create and maintain reciprocal relationships.
This webinar is the second of three in a series that share stories and tools for reflection, collaboration, and internal change as the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience leads a cohort of thirteen museums and community partners across the United States in Addressing the Silences, a three-year project intended to help sites create ever deeper, more meaningful relationships in their communities. Since first coming together in late 2022, project participants have worked to – foster co-creation with their communities and correct silences and absences in their institutions so that they can better leverage their extraordinary capacity to serve as spaces for reflection and centers for positive social change.
Addressing the Silences: Making Change from the Inside Out
Our final session of this series will discuss internal institutional change and why we’re making change from the inside out. We’ll share how project participants and their community partners reflected on current institutional practices to identify barriers to collaboration and inclusion and the outcomes necessary to address those challenges. Attendees will learn how each group created an action plan to begin to break those barriers by making changes to their internal policies, practices and approaches. You’ll hear stories, examples and lessons learned in the internal changemaking process.
This webinar is the final of three in a series that share stories and tools for reflection, collaboration, and internal change as the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience leads a cohort of thirteen museums and community partners across the United States in Addressing the Silences, a three-year project intended to help sites create ever deeper, more meaningful relationships in their communities. Since first coming together in late 2022, project participants have worked to – foster co-creation with their communities and correct silences and absences in their institutions so that they can better leverage their extraordinary capacity to serve as spaces for reflection and centers for positive social change.