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July 17, 2014

Concordia in the news
Posted on December 9, 2013

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  • Nation Talk reports that a Connections Grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has been given to a team including Erica Lehrer, Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology, and director of the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV). The grant is for Caring for Difficult Knowledge: Human Rights in Contemporary Museum and Curatorial Practice, a joint program between the University of Winnipeg’s Cultural Research Group (CSRG) and CEREV. The funds will go primarily towards supporting a workshop to be held in Winnipeg to coincide with the grand opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.