Staging Difficult Pasts

1. Staging the Story of a People: The Politics of Co-Performance at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley

2. Theatricality & Spectacle: The Museum as Object

Bryce Lease

3. Curating the Experiential: The Imperial War Museum's Revised Holocaust Galleries.

James Bulgin in conversation with Bryce Lease

4. The Meaning of Working Through the Past: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral Memories

Michal Kobialka

5. On Crying Perpetrators and Subversive Laughter: Trans-Affiliative Encounters inside ESMA Memory Museum

Cecilia Sosa

6. Refracting Difficult Pasts: Temporal Answers and the In-Between.

Rabih Mroue in conversation with Michal Kobialka

7. Listening to the museum, hearing the mine: Mapa Teatro's live replica to modernity

Giulia Palladini

8. Showcasing Anti-colonial Nationalist Struggles: Museums and Theatre in Contestation

Bishnupriya Dutt

9. 'It's art, all it can do is bear witness': Remembering Histories of Enslavement in Black British Women's Plays and at the International Slavery Museum

Lynette Goddard

10. Chile's Museum of Memory and Human Rights: Long Life to the Theatre!

Milena Grass Kleiner and Mariana Hausdorf Andrade

11. On the Making of the Oratorio for the Disappeared

Erika Diettes in conversation with Vikki Bell

12. Enforced Disappearance and Silenced Histories: Pedro Almodovar's Madres paralelas/Parallel Mothers (2021)

Maria M. Delgado

13. What Remains: Staging Memory of Enslavement in the Western Cape

Nadia Davids and Jay Pather in conversation with Bryce Lease

14. Marketing a Massacre: When Outdoor Dramas Become Dark Tourism

Katrina Phillips

15. Epilogue - 10 Strategies for Exhibiting Absence & Loss: Objects, Narratives and Trauma on Display

Joanne Rosenthal