Our knowledge and experience significantly impact our perception of the world around us and the reality we inhabit. Each of us perceives the world from a slightly different angle, influenced by the places we move through and the situations we find ourselves in. However, by clutching a specific worldview too tightly, one risks overlooking quite a lot.
Discussing other people with respect is of foundational importance. It is our intention that the materials in this tab will help the viewer understand that the content and message of a given story are influenced by the storyteller’s perspective on the world.
Explore what shapes the ways we think about the world, and learn about stories that can help us see reality from a new perspective.
26.10.2021animated movie“History vs. Christopher Columbus”
TED-Ed animation by Alex Gendler
Christopher Columbus, as a historical persona, is familiar to most Europeans. We have long been taught that Columbus was an intrepid explorer who discovered unknown lands, catalyzing a “golden age” of global expansion. However, this is a simplistic and one-sided narrative that fails to examine this period of history in all its dimensions, including the iniquities spawned by conquest and colonization. In his animation, Alex Gendler sheds light on aspects of the story that schools have long turned a blind eye to.
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26.10.2021video“Colonial History – Postcolonial Societies”
Lecture organized by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
The lecture “Colonial History – Postcolonial Societies: On the Politics of Selective Memory in Europe” examined the problematics of postcolonialism and postcolonial societies. The lecture was delivered, by Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra of the University of Sussex, as a part of the CoHERE “Who Is Europe?” conference, which took place, on November 22–23, 2018, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.
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