Mapping memories nets team Humanitarian award

Published by Western News, November 9, 2018
By Adela Talbot

Amanda Grzyb and her colleagues don’t see their efforts in El Salvador as fitting the traditional definition of humanitarian work.

What the team is doing instead, she said, is showing a commitment to working in solidarity with the country’s civil war survivors on a project founded on principles of collaboration and anti-colonial methodologies.

“Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador” is a trans-national interdisciplinary initiative based in El Salvador, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

The project works with former refugees and massacre survivors to document their experiences during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992). Grzyb, the principal investigator and professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS), is among more than a dozen members of the Western community involved with the project (continue reading).