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ROGER SIMON, Ph. D. (Yale) email: rsimon@oise.utoronto.ca Roger Simon is a Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education cross appointed to the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies and the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. He is the Faculty Director of the Centre for Media and Culture in Education and Director of the Testimony and Historical Memory Project at OISE/UT. Simon has written broadly on critical approaches to culture and education. His most recent research has addressed questions of the pedagogical and ethical dimensions of practices of cultural memory in the context of our age of spectacle. This work on memory and the development of historical consciousness is part of Simon's on-going writing and teaching devoted to exploring the inter-sections of social and political theory, cultural practice and pedagogy in regard to the project of securing a public sphere enabling a just and compassionate future society. Simon’s Testimony and Historical Memory Project is currently completing several case studies of museum exhibition’s addressing aspects of historical memory and difficult knowledge. These exhibitions variously address the AIDS crisis world wide, experiences of women prisoners in Ravensbrück concentration camp, and a collection of 20th century lynching photographs of African Americans that has been exhibited in the United States over the last decade. The THM Project team is also working on the development of an international museum exhibition entitled: The Terrible Gift: History as Difficult Knowledge Courses Taught 2006-2007 SES1915 Education and Popular Culture Fall 2006 SES2999 Education, Historical Memory and Civic Life Winter 2006 SES2999 Museums as a Social Forum: Integrating Arts and History in the Civic Sphere Recent Publications and Presentations Books The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning and Ethics New York: Palgrave MacMillian 2005. Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma (co-edited with Sharon Rosenberg and Claudia Eppert,Latham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield 2000. Chapters in Books The Insistence of Public Memory in Seixas, Peter (Ed.) Theorizing Historical Consciousness. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Articles Museums, Civic Life, and the Educational Force of Remembrance Journal of Museum Education, Volume 31, Number 2, Summer 2006, pp. 113–122. The Terrible Gift: Museums and the Possibility of Hope Without Consolation Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship Volume Vol.21, No.3, September, 2006 Recent Invited and Conference Presentations “Altering the Inner Life of the Culture: Monstrous Memory and the Persistence of 9/11.” Invited Presentation at Conference “Beyond Ground Zero: 9/11 and the Futures of Critical Thought” McMaster University, October 2006. http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~taylor/ “Re-thinking Public History”. Invited Presentation at conference. The Politics of Memory. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, March 2006
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