{"id":2906,"date":"2019-03-20T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=2906"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:17","slug":"memories-of-mogadishu","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/memories-of-mogadishu\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Memories-of-Mogadishu-Conference-Poster-400x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Memories-of-Mogadishu-Conference-Poster-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Memories-of-Mogadishu-Conference-Poster-160x207.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Memories-of-Mogadishu-Conference-Poster-240x311.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Memories-of-Mogadishu-Conference-Poster-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Memories-of-Mogadishu-Conference-Poster-360x466.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font_6\">Memories&nbsp;of&nbsp;Mogadishu&nbsp;is a multimedia project that examines the use of&nbsp;memory&nbsp;in the reconstruction of a once cosmopolitan city by the Somali diaspora around the world.&nbsp;Through the use of&nbsp;oral history in combination of archival footage and personal interviews of members of the Somali diaspora around the world, the goal of the project is to document the&nbsp;collective memory of the pre-civil war city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font_6\">The project examines the use of memory in the reconstruction of a once cosmopolitan city by those who have been displaced for the last 25 years by political instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of the<em>&nbsp;Memories of Mogadishu<\/em>&nbsp;initiative, we are very pleased to present to you the&nbsp;<em>Memories of Mogadishu Conference<\/em>&nbsp;on May 4th, 2019. In partnership with the Ottawa Art Gallery, the&nbsp;United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), MCIS Language Solutions, the Catholic Centre for Immigrants, Carleton University, TakingITGlobal and Concordia University, this conference will explore&nbsp;the use of oral history and digital archives in preserving cultural heritage and collective memory in post-conflict&nbsp;societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font_6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Memories-of-Mogadishu-Conference-Poster.pdf\">POSTER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the conference schedule, please click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.memoriesofmogadishu.com\/conference\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To register for the event, please click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/memories-of-mogadishu-conference-2019-tickets-59663974554\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[42],"cu_event_audience":[9],"class_list":["post-2906","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-sponsored","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2019-05-04T10:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2019-05-04T17:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2906\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}