Povestea ta contează…Iaşi – 11.X.2012

Dr. Alan Bruce

ULS, Irlanda

Genesis…

Arma virumque cano

Troiae qui primus ab oris

Italiam, fato profugis

laviniaque venit

D’où venons nous?Que sommes nous?Où allons nous?

Contours of crisis Europe at the crossroads: obsolete templates and the 21st

century Economic meltdown: globalization and neo-liberal

ascendancy Seeking vision: significance, relevance, meaning Technological Tantalus: ICT, communications and potential Innovation, identity and the Age of Uncertainty

Oral history – voice of the voiceless

Ordinary people, extraordinary stories Witnesses to barbarism Testimonies of hope Lives made special through the ties that bind Echoes of our futures Parables of transcendence

The impact of changeThe old world is dying.

The new world struggles to be born.

Now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci

James Joyce: voices from the periphery

History is a nightmarefrom which I am trying to awaken

Intergenerational dialectics

Giving youth a purpose Giving age a meaning Giving linkage to community Shaping the present and the future by voyaging to the past Creating an architecture of shared learning around rights and

common humanity

Meaning in the chaos

Defining a citizenship of mutual support Letting the voice speak

Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born… Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.Elsa MoranteHistory: A Novel

MyStory: technology and skill

Using the passion of youth Tapping into potential and significance Encountering the Other – Hegel and the Gaze Learning accelerated Breaking boundaries and borders Liberating and directing – shared meaning through shared

stories

Legends of identity

Divided identities Inequality and injusticeEthnic and religious conflictSurvival and rebirthDaring to live and make choices

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself Thomas Mann

Back to Gauguin…

Making sense of ourselves helps to make sense of the other Recording stories creates new possibilities for meaning Skills multiply, artists are born The journey has meaning, the voyage has purpose

Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous love -- more rooted, more absolute -- which we devote to our children, and which it is so hard to talk about.Claudio Magris Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

From past to future in the city of Eminescu...

When memory of bygone days

My spirit would detain,

Down long and often trodden ways

I travel the past again.

 

Când amintirile-n trecut

Incearca sã mã cheme,

Pe drumul lung si cunoscut

Mai trec din vreme-n vreme.

Historical imperatives Stories bind We are shaped by the past – collective and individual Each story acts as a bridge to the Other Communication is shaped by story telling and collecting Common humanity is infinitely varied – but ultimately

connected The experiences of MyStory can create repositories of real

meaning and value

Multumesc

Alan BRUCE

Dublin, Ireland

abruce@ulsystems.com