Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 18 minutes ago
In this Spring 2022 Wednesdays at the Center at Duke University, Felipe De Brigard, a neuroscientist and philosopher, presented his studies on the relationship between forgiveness and memory through the experiences of people who survived political violence in Colombia.
The decades of conflict included bombings, massacres, kidnappings for ransom, extortions, forced displacements, assassinations. Through his work, De Brigard hopes to learn how memory affects forgiveness, and how memories are affected by different ways to approach the act of forgiving. He is also tackling a question many Colombian survivors are grappling with now, and which has dogged humanity since forever: “How do you help the person who cannot bring herself to forgive, and yet wants to move on?
The talk was presented by the Duke University Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Duke.
Learn more about the Wednesdays at the Center Series:
https://igs.duke.edu/news?dws_event_unit_tid=214
In this Spring 2022 Wednesdays at the Center at Duke University, Felipe De Brigard, a neuroscientist and philosopher, presented his studies on the relationship between forgiveness and memory through the experiences of people who survived political violence in Colombia.
The decades of conflict included bombings, massacres, kidnappings for ransom, extortions, forced displacements, assassinations. Through his work, De Brigard hopes to learn how memory affects forgiveness, and how memories are affected by different ways to approach the act of forgiving. He is also tackling a question many Colombian survivors are grappling with now, and which has dogged humanity since forever: “How do you help the person who cannot bring herself to forgive, and yet wants to move on?
The talk was presented by the Duke University Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Duke.
Learn more about the Wednesdays at the Center Series:
https://igs.duke.edu/news?dws_event_unit_tid=214
