Education Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM)
EdJAM is a network of researchers, educators and civil society organisations working in the arts, education and heritage. We are committed to creative ways to teach and learn about the violent past in order to build more just futures.
EdJAM is funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Funding (GCRF) Collective Programme.
What we do EdJAM events
Join our upcoming events
“Shadowlands” Documentary Film Screening and talk with Dr Nida Kirmani – Birmingham (UK)
You are invited to join us for a UK screening of Shadowlands: Life After Conflict in Lyari produced by Dr. Nida Kirmani.
Location: Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT
Date: June 5, 2023 5:30 pm GMT
“Shadowlands” Documentary Film Screening and talk with Dr Nida Kirmani – Bristol (UK)
You are invited to join us for a UK screening of Shadowlands: Life After Conflict in Lyari produced by Dr. Nida Kirmani.
Location: University of Bristol - School of Education
Date: June 7, 2023 5:00 pm GMT
Our Projects
EdJAM commissions collaborative research on teaching and learning about the violent past
Pakistan
Memories of Conflict: Healing from Lyari’s Violent Past
This project, which is a collaboration between Nida Kirmani, a sociologist, and Dostain Ellahi, an independent filmmaker, will utilize documentary film…
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Cambodia
Disconcerting past – History education on mass atrocities
How can we encourage more interactive ways of learning about mass atrocities? Our process engages history teachers in exploring student-centred methods…
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Argentina
Intimate Cartographies in Community
Deconstructing the idea that the past and the present are disconnected with tours around the district with secondary school students and teachers through…
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Palestine
Knowledge as a tool for liberation: Economy and culture as violent colonialist tools.
Investigation of Israeli occupation to produce thoroughly examined information and knowledge faithful to the local Palestinian narrative through written…
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Uganda
Performing Pain: Mnemotechnologies of remembrance in Abia and its impact on informal (music) education, memory, peace and recovery
Investigating how the community of Abia, in northern Uganda, who experienced a horrific LORD’s Resistance Army massacre in 2014, perform their pain through…
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Colombia
Co-creation of Storytelling and Listening Pedagogies for Peacebuilding in Colombia
Investigating the potential of storytelling and collective creation for empowering communities who have been victimized but have also resisted the cycles…
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Exhibitions, Video/Film, Visual artsPalabreras & Callejeras: Bogotá art exhibition video
A short video recording the 2023 Palabreras & Callejeras art exhibition in Bogotá, Colombia. The art exhibition was a collective creation of posters,…
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Video/Film, News/BlogsExperiential activity Higher Normal School Antonio Mentruyt
The third video from our the Intimate Cartographies in Community project. Deconstructing the idea that the past and the present are disconnected with…
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