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In this podcast series produced by Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Dr. Stephanie Arel and award winning documentary filmmaker Jessica Daugherty, we will speak with museum and memorial workers including curators, collectors, writers, and directors about the impacts their work at memorial sites has on communities and themselves to investigate the importance of the roles they play in society. The podcast is a continuation of Dr. Arel's research, and is a companion podcast to her book Bearing Witness: T ...
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Plato proposes that the "khôra" rests between the sensible and the intelligible, through which everything passes but in which nothing remains. For podcast producers Dr. Stephanie Arel and Jessica Daugherty, The Khôra serves as a holding space, a container for encountering the emotional impact of caring and bearing witness to trauma. We aim to learn from those engaged in practices of care, and who may encounter traumatic circumstances, in order to illuminate strategies for individual growth, ...
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Bearing Witness: Galicia Jewish Museum
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One of the first locations Dr. Stephanie Arel visited when she began research for her book Bearing Witness: The Wounds of Mass Trauma at Memorial Museums was the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland. She went there to understand how they were memorializing the Holocaust and the impact this work had on the museum's workers. In this episode, we ha…
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Bearing Witness: Les Anneaux de la Mémoire
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In 1992, Les Anneaux de la Mémoire (The Shackles of Memory) was an exhibition which was focused on the city of Nantes, France and its role and complicity as a trading port along the route of enslaved people in the 18th century. The exhibition was such a success that it became an association in Nantes that to this day publishes journals, researches …
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Bearing Witness: The Whitney Plantation
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The memorialization and commemoration of the lives taken and lineage affected by the Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery in America is a fairly new field. On December 7th, 2014, the Whitney Plantation opened as a memorial ground and a museum in Wallace, Louisiana. It was the first of its kind in the US. In this episode we speak with…
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Bearing Witness: Equal Justice Initiative
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In this episode, we speak with Tera DuVernay, the Deputy Director of Museum and Memorial Operations at the Equal Justice Initiative. Tera is also known for her work as a Researcher for several films including the academy award winning film 13th about mass criminalization in America. She has worked with the EJI for over 5 years and was on the core t…
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Bearing Witness: Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation
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For the last hundred years, politicians, civilians, and academics have attempted to deny the Armenian Genocide. Currently, efforts exist to annihilate both a period of history and its people. In this episode, we are joined by Regina Galustyan of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Foundation who discusses her research about the efforts of the pe…
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Bearing Witness: Galerija 11/07/95 in Sarajevo
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It is once again a bustling, modern European city, but in 1995, Sarajevo was ravaged by Serbian forces during the Bosnian War of the 1990's. For four years, the Serbian military surrounded the city playing target practice with its citizens. In this episode, we speak with Nejra Mulaomerovic whose home stood on the front lines and we learn about her …
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Bearing Witness: Remembering for others in Cambodia
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This episode introduces listeners to Sopheaktra Tim and Chamroeun Lak. Both are memory workers in Cambodia, a country where most older adults experienced the violence of the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot and his regime ravished Cambodia from 1975-1979. These workers discuss their efforts at remembering their fallen ancestors as well as the resilience in the…
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Bearing Witness: National September 11 Memorial & Museum
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In this episode we speak with Lisa Conte, head conservator at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Alexandra Drakakis, a former curator who worked there for 13 years, to discuss the impact of the memorial and museum on the survivor community and on their own lives. This episode is brought to you by Dr. Stephanie Arel and produced by Shri…
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This Khora features two nurses, both working in the same Florida hospital, whose various experiences in nursing highlight the importance of self-care for care workers. Nurses are essential to the health and success of the medical care system, and starting in late 2019 they found themselves on the front lines of a global pandemic. But what kind of s…
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In this khôra, we recognize teachers, especially public school and grade school educators, as caregivers. Beyond their call to educate students, teachers often act as social workers, emergency responders, parental figures, role models and mentors giving hours and hours of unpaid time outside of the classroom to facilitate a safe environment and a p…
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This khôra features Dr. Courtney Riley, an award winning veterinarian and animal advocate, in an intimate and heartfelt conversation with her sister, Dr. Stephanie Arel and podcast producer Jessica Daugherty. Veterinarians hold a complex role in our society, simultaneously caring for animals and the people who love and rely on them for comfort, com…
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In this khôra we speak with Stephanie Duzant, ordained clergy member and theologian with a background in social work, about advocacy, grief, and practical applications of theological texts to the grief process. Duzant shares with us her tools for modulating stress and the effects of the emotional labor of counseling and advocacy. Support the show…
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This khôra includes hosts Dr. Stephanie Arel and Jessica Daugherty with Cyndi, a flight attendant whose stories of working through hundreds of flights, the 9/11 attacks, and now the Covid-19 Pandemic, reveal that flight attendants are care workers taking on much more than their jobs are understood to entail. Support the show…
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