Cultural Trauma and Diversity in Museums: A Report from São Paulo
Cultural Trauma and Diversity in Museums: A Report from São Paulo

Summary/Abstract: In summer 2017 researchers from the Institute of Cultural Research, and the Department of Archival Studies at the University of Tartu, conducted fieldwork in São Paulo under the auspices of a European Commission funded project titled Social Performance, Cultural Trauma and the Re-establishing of Solid Sovereignties (SPECTRESS, 2014–2017). SPECTRESS was a network of nine international university partners, five from Europe (Ireland, Germany, Poland, Croatia and Estonia), two from Asia (India, Japan), one from South America (Brazil), and the USA brought together to research post-traumatic national self-perception in an era that celebrates the global. SPECTRESS as a scholarly exchange program of partners from largely ‘post-traumatic’ states aimed at understanding the negotiation of ‘cultural trauma’ and ‘new sovereignties’ in the 20th and 21st centuries. To document the inscriptions of the ‘post-traumatic’ in forms of public performance was one of the aims of our stay in São Paulo.

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