For the global celebration, a
symposium will be held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, on 27 October 2022. The event will be opened for registration for Member States, and will be live-streamed for the public.
In this respect, key issues that may define the celebration of the 30th anniversary would include:
- Identifying documentary heritage, including that inscribed on national, regional and international registers of the MoW Programme, which promotes greater understanding and dialogue across cultures.
- Celebrating documentary heritage of marginalized groups, such as indigenous people. Member States that are a home to such groups could consider highlighting this aspect of their societies in order to promote inclusivity, thereby enhancing the possibility of just and peaceful co-existence.
- Highlighting the gender inequalities in access to, and usage of, documentary heritage across archives, libraries, museums, etc.
- Celebrating national world-significant documents that have had a phenomenal impact on a community, a culture, a country or humanity generally. Many examples abound, but the determination of these is left to Member States.
- Exploiting the educational value of documentary heritage to enrich existing curricula with under-utilized primary sources.
- Exploring how media and journalists can exploit the historical value of documentary heritage for contemporary reporting on issues of sustainable development.
Celebrating national, regional and international documents that may be deemed as having contributed the most towards bringing about inclusive, just and peaceful societies in a particular national, regional or international context.
- Highlighting best practices on safeguarding documentary heritage at risk.
There are many more aspects of this theme that can be exploited for maximum effect.
UNESCO and partners are planning national and regional celebrations in:
Bosnia and HerzegovinaMemory of the world - Torn from Oblivion".
17-21 October 2022.
Organizer: Gazi Husrev-beg Library, Sarajevo.
The event "Memory of the World - Torn from Oblivion" will be organized as a part of the 30th anniversary of UNESCO Memory of the World (MoW) Programme.
The manuscript collection of the Gazi Husrev-beg Library has been inscribed in the MoW International Register in 2017. Tracing back to the history of the establishment of the MoW Programme in 1992, the most significant catalyst for speeding up the programme’s launch was the destruction of documentary heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war, especially the destruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sarajevo City Hall.
This year, marking the 30th anniversary of the MoW Programme, the Gazi Husrev-beg library in Sarajevo has prepared a five-day event with a several activities, some of which are designed and directed towards different categories of Bosnian society, towards children from socially vulnerable categories, primary and secondary school students, cultural and scientific workers, librarians, archivists, conservators, restoration specialists, etc.
As a part of this event, two exhibitions will be organized, along with lectures in the field of librarianship, archival science, heritage protection and promotion. Other activities include literary evening, a film day, a workshop for children, a debate competition of high school students. Free entrance to the Book Museum (GHB Museum) will also be applied during the event.
The opening ceremony will take place on October 17th, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. in the Gazi Husrev Beg Library in Sarajevo.
Poster, Links to see the livestream:
Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka
FranceJournées annuelles Mémoire du Monde,
3 - 4 October 2022, Limoges & Meuzac
Organisateur : Le comité français Mémoire du Monde, avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO et en collaboration avec le Bouclier Bleu Franc.
Theme : « les plans d’urgences »
Programme.
IndonesiaCelebrating UNESCO MoW at Open GLAM6 November 2022
Organizer: Open GLAM and UNESCO Office in Jakarta
The UNESCO session at Open GLAM will introduce the Memory of the World programme, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The UNESCO Memory of the World International Register, which lists over 400 such records from around the world, is a great tool for enhancing awareness and accessibility for the wider public. At the session, UNESCO will also present its recently developed educational materials that are based on the Register and can be used by educators and youth for intercultural dialogue and active learning. The session will be complemented by two other speakers – from the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia, which serves as the Chair of the Indonesian MoW Committee, and the Archipelago Manuscript Society (Manassa), an association of over 500 documentary heritage professionals. They will speak about the best practices of community engagement and ensuring open access to collections, using case studies of Indonesian inscriptions on the
Memory of the World Register. Indonesia and Memory of the World Symposium and Youth Competition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the MoW Programme
9 November 2022.
Organizer: The National Archives of Indonesia and UNESCO Office in Jakarta
UNESCO, in collaboration, with the National Archives of Indonesia, which serves as the Chair of the Indonesia Memory of the World (MoW) Committee, will hold a symposium and youth competition dedicated to the celebration of the 30th MoW anniversary. The goal of the symposium is to analyze the current trends in preservation and accessibility, using some of the MoW inscriptions as case studies. The youth competition, entitled “Making History Cool Again!”, is aimed at raising awareness of young people about the importance of documentary heritage and demonstrating how it can be used for intercultural dialogue and active learning.
The symposium will be held at the Museum of Asian-African Conference in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. This is a symbolic place to hold the 30th MoW anniversary, given that the Asian-African Conference archives have been inscribed on the MoW International Register.
To be available on
https://anri.go.id/
IRAQ
“Forgotten Memory” (Symposium and Film Screening)
27 October 2022, Baghdad
Organizer: The Iraq Memory Foundation
The symposium feature a number of speakers, with the screening of the film "Tomorrow towards Yesterday".
Words from Mr Kassem Hawal:
“The idea in a nutshell - in politically degraded countries, and the reflection of this deterioration on all areas of life, including written and audio documents, and in particular and importantly, visual documents, which were filmed on celluloid tapes. On my return to Iraq after the fall of the totalitarian dictatorship, and I was looking for my lost movie ‘The Marshes’, I saw tons of movies lying in the catacombs and in the sour water. I worked through Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to save Iraq's illustrated history and put it in a museum in preparation for its restoration. The experience of rescuing the illustrated materials was documented by means of a digital cinematography, accompanied by a representative from UNESCO, as a witness to the experiment, Dr. Dhea Subhee. This film, in addition to revealing many objective facts when completed, will be a reference for every country that wants to preserve its illustrated history, as it constitutes the important evidence of the experience of saving illustrated history.
SOUTH-ASIAKeeping Memory of the World Alive.28 October 2022.
Organizer: UNESCO Office in New Delhi
Keeping in line with the global theme and celebration, UNESCO New Delhi will organize an online event to commemorate the anniversary on 28 October 2022 at 15:00 – 17:00 IST.
The key issues that will be discussed on the 30th anniversary celebration by the New Delhi Office would include:Identifying documentary heritage, including that inscribed on national, regional and international registers of the MoW Programme, which promotes greater understanding and dialogue across cultures.
Celebrating documentary heritage of marginalized groups, such as indigenous people. Member States that are a home to such groups could consider highlighting this aspect of their societies in order to promote inclusivity, thereby enhancing the possibility of just and peaceful co-existence.
Celebrating national, regional and international documents that may be deemed as having contributed the most towards bringing about inclusive, just and peaceful societies in a particular national, regional or international context.
Highlighting best practices on safeguarding documentary heritage at risk.
Publication Launch
On this occasion, UNESCO New Delhi Office will also e-launch a publication entitled
“What Will the World Remember: UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme in South Asia”. The information booklet aims to provide a glimpse into the inscriptions from the South Asia.
The countries covered in this edition comprising of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka have made significant contribution in preserving the social and political history.
