In an era of government-sponsored processes of apology, truth, and reconciliation for colonial violence and dispossession, what is the burden of public memory? To hazard an answer to this question, I reflected on my process of narrating the story of an early-twentieth-century Anglican missionary in the Pacific Northwest who thought telepathy was the solution to everything from class warfare to religious divisions.
“Telepathy, Empire, and Public Memory” Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, February 15, 2018.