good afternoon
journalist knows not speak no role in
hand then made me sorry for the
annotations is good
My name is adriana carranca, I am
journalist and writer I tell
stories and it’s about that about power
storytelling that I would like to
speak with you today the stories they
stay for eternity
they are when there is no more memory
actually write our existence
stories that are not told is as if
never exists without them being forgotten with
The time when there is no more
memory the first experience first
contact I had with the importance of
tell stories
was in southern sudan in a field of
refugees in Uganda border is was
night was all too dark with a
complete darkness and listen to distance
I had gone to the field to know how
they lived in that situation at night and
I heard a song from a distance and I
I approached nuncio to follow while I did not
came close to that song and knew
what was happening
and then I discovered that they counted
stories were refugees had fled
It’s from the war leaving everything behind
houses clothes objects photographs and
only thing left were they were memory
and he was then tempted to share
this memory the adults with the children
to be able to continue existing without it
it is as if they were not part of the
our history we only know of the past
through the stories we tell and
we recorded in some way
It’s the life of each of us here is a
non-fiction story and is an excerpt from
narrative of our existence
the question then poses which
stories tell what stories we
we are building the narrative of our
existence
I’m going to tell a little of my
history in search of stories of
others around the world
This story started when I won.
a scholarship to go to
London and my class in the 60’s
students from 45 countries my best friend
an Egyptian and on spring break
She invited us to go and pass the
with her in Egypt because there was
her family had highlighted three
suitors among whom she should
choose one to get married
so we were the three friends
the eucanaã a catholic AIDS is no no
a practitioner who decides not to have a religion
to be able to write about religions is
with greater exemption to geraldine which is a
Filipino Protestant Adílio want a
Canadian Jew to help the dynamo south
human being to choose a husband and
when young boys are
courting the girls in Egypt they
Friends were the best then the best.
The trip we already did today won
gifts we just did not ride the boat at
river nilo people received flowers all
days but what struck me the most in that
trip was that when we came back
to the room
The four of us gathered there, we were alone.
four girls talking about what
girls and boys talk in the world
whole about love family friendship
future work school university
except for there was no Catholic Jew
there was no Muslim
there was egyptian brazil
we exist absolutely nothing that we
to differentiate and I started to
ask if this was true if the
narrative that we hear from certain
places
she is not she is not the complete narrative
the reality that happens on the ground in
field
so I went back to egypt later
Dina’s wedding she did not marry
none of those three married another
she met at the sambão in london
and when I went to the wedding of da
dina
this is geraldine in the first
first image I had of the
hate hostility between the bisa area and
and Jews was this image of the
friendship between the two then for me
there has never been this enmity because
my first perception of this conflict
It was through friendship that is when it was said
that the wedding of the dina decides from there
by iran
and I had the image that I find
a country is destroyed by war
impoverished a country is economically
destroyed by isolated economic sanctions
oppressed women and me and I made a
in the Arab Emirates to buy
a veil because it is mandatory in Iran
the use of the veil when you enter the space
you are the commissioner of
board warns you to put it receives the
birds women because the law in the country
so I went to the mall on this scale
for help girls for me
buy a veil this month for a coffee
because I wanted to know what it was like
to live what it was like to be these women
whose image I had to go down in
oppressed women in and before
in this cafe before we start to
talk to one of the girls that
is in glasses that is a designer of
is the bay is 10 of these black clothes
Nicab is not she said she did not want to do
question is it true that
Brazilians make many plastic
It’s true, it’s because she said our
that the pressure is that oppression
female you are forced to submit
to surgery to have surgery
circular and is accepted in society
then to me what I saw as the
pressure to her was the
liberating is the way in which it
dress was a form of freedom because
about nicab she could be who she
wanted
and then I realized that the narrative that the
people counted from these regions and
women
ignored an important part of the
narrative that was the vision of their own
and how they see the world is good there
I went then through Iran and I arrived at
will
dressed with nicab with all that
baggage is that I had about the iran
that I thought you would find in Iran and I
I was received at the airport had dialed
with my translator and at distance I
I saw a girl in jeans
all-star pink one bat
colored hair and the veil that barely covers the hair
and when I approached looked at me and
said but what are you doing?
dressed like this we would go to
Iranian we are very modern and we
we went to tehran center in the car
her driving her listening to Iranian funk
and then I realized that in Iran too
the narrative I heard from Iran was not
I will never meet women
awesome clothes that dress the most
different ways
the lawyer filmmakers she students
found that they are the ones that occupy 70% of
50 percent of the university ‘s
workforce the first woman to
to win the peace nobel is an iranian
first nobel peace by iran comes from
hands of a woman shirin ebadi
only that these stories did not fit
they did not fit the narrative of the
time on the time to talk much
of the Iranian nuclear program then only
stories of violence fit together
really in this narrative and the other
stories were ignored
I then went to try to discover other
stories from other places and discover
if the narrative of these places really is
It was not complete so there is I was
pro feminine are the narratives have
been used to support us
it is offensive to the military then who does not
remember iraq
mass destruction weapons in Dhaka
Iraq we believe in that and
we support the majority of Americans in
supported the war in Iraq because
It was a narrative that is not exposed
will be that there were weapons of
or not with regard to the Afghans
the women about the burcas that people
should save by military action
and I went pro feminine are and discover
about these burqa stories too
then incredible how much he had discovered
no iran
you have a number of issues for
which they are fighting they fight for
Your rights are the government tries
oprimirás tries to limit his role in the
society
but I heard a phrase
It’s very important that I heard from shirin
ebadi that the Nobel of the Iranian peace
When I went to interview there, she
received with the veil and as I knew that
she defended the feminine freedom I
I asked her to come because you ‘re
wearing the same veil indoors with the
its history of defense of freedom it
it was because I do not advocate not wearing the veil
I defend the freedom of choice
even if you choose to use the
hijab and if I had this freedom I
I would choose to use it and then I realized that
that what she fights for is the
what we all fight for is not there
difference between us women and men
we all struggle for the right to have
freedom of choice
then the Afghans also fight for it and
Do you have women, do you get the teacher?
who educated 150 girls within his
secretly during the regime of the
Taliban
Do you have this deputy the first woman
to run for president of afghanistan
the publisher of the first women’s magazine
from Afghanistan to Commander of the 1st
afghanistan women ‘s battalion
is trying to humanize more actions
military
She has a poetry blog. She was
to marry
in the following weeks with a young ten
years younger than her of another ethnicity
and a patent lower than that in the
army that had fallen in love with her
read the poems she wrote without
know that she was a commander of the
army and they were getting married breaking
all possible taboos in the
afghanistan calls it the first
Kabul graffiti artist who is
redrawing the walls destroyed by the
war with your art
the first Afghan boxer to participate
of a world championship she fights –
same stage in which women before
were often tried and convicted
to stoning and she chose to fight
in this gym as a way to
peaceful resistance to show
the struggle of this new generation is another I
I had the same stories I
I could stay here for days talking on the phone.
pakistan indonesia turkey israel gaza
and the West Bank in Sudan Congo
south ethiopia mexico haiti
all these places these stories
there is only that what happens is that
they are often invisible and the
problem does not give space to narrative
for peaceful stories and prices actors
the non-violent were only the actors who
use of violence dominates the narrative
which is with the message that we because
we send to those who try
change things through actions
non-violent is that the single car
possible way is to have a gun in your hand
It’s this message that we tell them
if these peaceful stories have no voice
does not have space do not cause any
pressure is and therefore no reaction to them
get tired of trying to change things
through non- violent actions and many
of them have violent actions
we are living today a struggle of narratives
This is the great war we live in.
in the world today
the stories we told have
direct and concrete impact on reality
have been studied
several scientists haiti has a
exclusive department to study
correlation between how our brain
works when exposed to different
narratives and how this can
the violence
emily bruno is a mit teacher who
take care of this department
the researchers had already discovered
for example when you are reading about
the suffering of other people
an area
your brain is activated and is the same area
When are you suffering from that pain?
you yourself conclusion that the one that arrives
is that we are all capable of
develop empathy we feel the pain
on the other but the researchers
have also discovered that this is only true
when the subject of violence in efe
or only when we relate
with that victim of violence is that she
causes this relationship of empathy in people
This explains why, for example, when
there are attacks in new york or in
Paris
the reaction to our reaction to the world reaction
and the internet is also much larger than
for example an attack in nigeria
because it’s more pre but we feel
we put ourselves in the place of people
who are in france or in the states
united because maybe we visited more
these places and we hardly heard
about nigeria does not have space
in the narrative being written today
and therefore nigeria is a place for us
very unfamiliar and effective and efficient
mind is our brain does not react to
violence suffered by people is in the
nigeria researchers also
have discovered that there is even when people
is able to develop empathy exists
a contrary reaction that is you
develop empathy for a group and this
makes you support violence
unconsciously from another group in
all the movies we always have
wringing the good guy against the bench
the bad guys even if the good guy practices
acts of violence
then it ends up perpetuating the
violence is what researchers
call it a war of empathy, failure of the
empathy a failure in the empathy system
it’s the answer is from our brain it’s just
different when we are exposed there
positive stories stories in which
there is suffering but the focus
of history is a positive action that is
managing to transform that situation
in this case and only then the reaction of the
our brain is comfortable and it is
altruism is that this has an impact on
people is in the desire to help and contribute
with that change that is being
shown and here lies precisely the
story telling power
the power that is now in the hands of
all of us because today you can all
tell stories in your timeline
sharing or disseminating the
disseminate information
the researchers, however, also
found that on the internet we also
we have a greater tendency to share
just what we are familiar with
We only have our friends in our
in our social networks we are only
we share this with the thought of
people who are similar to us
this instead of developing empathy
increasing distances strengthens
differences is causing a decline
our ability to develop
empathy is for the other this was a
research also done is between until 2009
who worked on this internet impact
so if I can leave a message
I would say to you today if you remember
that we are writing together to
narrative of our existence is instead
to promote hatred and violence
share peaceful actions and examples
positive that inspire and transform the
instead of highlighting what we
distance we are going to show what we
approaches and makes us
the same as humans is and that’s how we
Let’s build a narrative together
of a better world for all
thank you
[Applause]
journalist knows not speak no role in
hand then made me sorry for the
annotations is good
My name is adriana carranca, I am
journalist and writer I tell
stories and it’s about that about power
storytelling that I would like to
speak with you today the stories they
stay for eternity
they are when there is no more memory
actually write our existence
stories that are not told is as if
never exists without them being forgotten with
The time when there is no more
memory the first experience first
contact I had with the importance of
tell stories
was in southern sudan in a field of
refugees in Uganda border is was
night was all too dark with a
complete darkness and listen to distance
I had gone to the field to know how
they lived in that situation at night and
I heard a song from a distance and I
I approached nuncio to follow while I did not
came close to that song and knew
what was happening
and then I discovered that they counted
stories were refugees had fled
It’s from the war leaving everything behind
houses clothes objects photographs and
only thing left were they were memory
and he was then tempted to share
this memory the adults with the children
to be able to continue existing without it
it is as if they were not part of the
our history we only know of the past
through the stories we tell and
we recorded in some way
It’s the life of each of us here is a
non-fiction story and is an excerpt from
narrative of our existence
the question then poses which
stories tell what stories we
we are building the narrative of our
existence
I’m going to tell a little of my
history in search of stories of
others around the world
This story started when I won.
a scholarship to go to
London and my class in the 60’s
students from 45 countries my best friend
an Egyptian and on spring break
She invited us to go and pass the
with her in Egypt because there was
her family had highlighted three
suitors among whom she should
choose one to get married
so we were the three friends
the eucanaã a catholic AIDS is no no
a practitioner who decides not to have a religion
to be able to write about religions is
with greater exemption to geraldine which is a
Filipino Protestant Adílio want a
Canadian Jew to help the dynamo south
human being to choose a husband and
when young boys are
courting the girls in Egypt they
Friends were the best then the best.
The trip we already did today won
gifts we just did not ride the boat at
river nilo people received flowers all
days but what struck me the most in that
trip was that when we came back
to the room
The four of us gathered there, we were alone.
four girls talking about what
girls and boys talk in the world
whole about love family friendship
future work school university
except for there was no Catholic Jew
there was no Muslim
there was egyptian brazil
we exist absolutely nothing that we
to differentiate and I started to
ask if this was true if the
narrative that we hear from certain
places
she is not she is not the complete narrative
the reality that happens on the ground in
field
so I went back to egypt later
Dina’s wedding she did not marry
none of those three married another
she met at the sambão in london
and when I went to the wedding of da
dina
this is geraldine in the first
first image I had of the
hate hostility between the bisa area and
and Jews was this image of the
friendship between the two then for me
there has never been this enmity because
my first perception of this conflict
It was through friendship that is when it was said
that the wedding of the dina decides from there
by iran
and I had the image that I find
a country is destroyed by war
impoverished a country is economically
destroyed by isolated economic sanctions
oppressed women and me and I made a
in the Arab Emirates to buy
a veil because it is mandatory in Iran
the use of the veil when you enter the space
you are the commissioner of
board warns you to put it receives the
birds women because the law in the country
so I went to the mall on this scale
for help girls for me
buy a veil this month for a coffee
because I wanted to know what it was like
to live what it was like to be these women
whose image I had to go down in
oppressed women in and before
in this cafe before we start to
talk to one of the girls that
is in glasses that is a designer of
is the bay is 10 of these black clothes
Nicab is not she said she did not want to do
question is it true that
Brazilians make many plastic
It’s true, it’s because she said our
that the pressure is that oppression
female you are forced to submit
to surgery to have surgery
circular and is accepted in society
then to me what I saw as the
pressure to her was the
liberating is the way in which it
dress was a form of freedom because
about nicab she could be who she
wanted
and then I realized that the narrative that the
people counted from these regions and
women
ignored an important part of the
narrative that was the vision of their own
and how they see the world is good there
I went then through Iran and I arrived at
will
dressed with nicab with all that
baggage is that I had about the iran
that I thought you would find in Iran and I
I was received at the airport had dialed
with my translator and at distance I
I saw a girl in jeans
all-star pink one bat
colored hair and the veil that barely covers the hair
and when I approached looked at me and
said but what are you doing?
dressed like this we would go to
Iranian we are very modern and we
we went to tehran center in the car
her driving her listening to Iranian funk
and then I realized that in Iran too
the narrative I heard from Iran was not
I will never meet women
awesome clothes that dress the most
different ways
the lawyer filmmakers she students
found that they are the ones that occupy 70% of
50 percent of the university ‘s
workforce the first woman to
to win the peace nobel is an iranian
first nobel peace by iran comes from
hands of a woman shirin ebadi
only that these stories did not fit
they did not fit the narrative of the
time on the time to talk much
of the Iranian nuclear program then only
stories of violence fit together
really in this narrative and the other
stories were ignored
I then went to try to discover other
stories from other places and discover
if the narrative of these places really is
It was not complete so there is I was
pro feminine are the narratives have
been used to support us
it is offensive to the military then who does not
remember iraq
mass destruction weapons in Dhaka
Iraq we believe in that and
we support the majority of Americans in
supported the war in Iraq because
It was a narrative that is not exposed
will be that there were weapons of
or not with regard to the Afghans
the women about the burcas that people
should save by military action
and I went pro feminine are and discover
about these burqa stories too
then incredible how much he had discovered
no iran
you have a number of issues for
which they are fighting they fight for
Your rights are the government tries
oprimirás tries to limit his role in the
society
but I heard a phrase
It’s very important that I heard from shirin
ebadi that the Nobel of the Iranian peace
When I went to interview there, she
received with the veil and as I knew that
she defended the feminine freedom I
I asked her to come because you ‘re
wearing the same veil indoors with the
its history of defense of freedom it
it was because I do not advocate not wearing the veil
I defend the freedom of choice
even if you choose to use the
hijab and if I had this freedom I
I would choose to use it and then I realized that
that what she fights for is the
what we all fight for is not there
difference between us women and men
we all struggle for the right to have
freedom of choice
then the Afghans also fight for it and
Do you have women, do you get the teacher?
who educated 150 girls within his
secretly during the regime of the
Taliban
Do you have this deputy the first woman
to run for president of afghanistan
the publisher of the first women’s magazine
from Afghanistan to Commander of the 1st
afghanistan women ‘s battalion
is trying to humanize more actions
military
She has a poetry blog. She was
to marry
in the following weeks with a young ten
years younger than her of another ethnicity
and a patent lower than that in the
army that had fallen in love with her
read the poems she wrote without
know that she was a commander of the
army and they were getting married breaking
all possible taboos in the
afghanistan calls it the first
Kabul graffiti artist who is
redrawing the walls destroyed by the
war with your art
the first Afghan boxer to participate
of a world championship she fights –
same stage in which women before
were often tried and convicted
to stoning and she chose to fight
in this gym as a way to
peaceful resistance to show
the struggle of this new generation is another I
I had the same stories I
I could stay here for days talking on the phone.
pakistan indonesia turkey israel gaza
and the West Bank in Sudan Congo
south ethiopia mexico haiti
all these places these stories
there is only that what happens is that
they are often invisible and the
problem does not give space to narrative
for peaceful stories and prices actors
the non-violent were only the actors who
use of violence dominates the narrative
which is with the message that we because
we send to those who try
change things through actions
non-violent is that the single car
possible way is to have a gun in your hand
It’s this message that we tell them
if these peaceful stories have no voice
does not have space do not cause any
pressure is and therefore no reaction to them
get tired of trying to change things
through non- violent actions and many
of them have violent actions
we are living today a struggle of narratives
This is the great war we live in.
in the world today
the stories we told have
direct and concrete impact on reality
have been studied
several scientists haiti has a
exclusive department to study
correlation between how our brain
works when exposed to different
narratives and how this can
the violence
emily bruno is a mit teacher who
take care of this department
the researchers had already discovered
for example when you are reading about
the suffering of other people
an area
your brain is activated and is the same area
When are you suffering from that pain?
you yourself conclusion that the one that arrives
is that we are all capable of
develop empathy we feel the pain
on the other but the researchers
have also discovered that this is only true
when the subject of violence in efe
or only when we relate
with that victim of violence is that she
causes this relationship of empathy in people
This explains why, for example, when
there are attacks in new york or in
Paris
the reaction to our reaction to the world reaction
and the internet is also much larger than
for example an attack in nigeria
because it’s more pre but we feel
we put ourselves in the place of people
who are in france or in the states
united because maybe we visited more
these places and we hardly heard
about nigeria does not have space
in the narrative being written today
and therefore nigeria is a place for us
very unfamiliar and effective and efficient
mind is our brain does not react to
violence suffered by people is in the
nigeria researchers also
have discovered that there is even when people
is able to develop empathy exists
a contrary reaction that is you
develop empathy for a group and this
makes you support violence
unconsciously from another group in
all the movies we always have
wringing the good guy against the bench
the bad guys even if the good guy practices
acts of violence
then it ends up perpetuating the
violence is what researchers
call it a war of empathy, failure of the
empathy a failure in the empathy system
it’s the answer is from our brain it’s just
different when we are exposed there
positive stories stories in which
there is suffering but the focus
of history is a positive action that is
managing to transform that situation
in this case and only then the reaction of the
our brain is comfortable and it is
altruism is that this has an impact on
people is in the desire to help and contribute
with that change that is being
shown and here lies precisely the
story telling power
the power that is now in the hands of
all of us because today you can all
tell stories in your timeline
sharing or disseminating the
disseminate information
the researchers, however, also
found that on the internet we also
we have a greater tendency to share
just what we are familiar with
We only have our friends in our
in our social networks we are only
we share this with the thought of
people who are similar to us
this instead of developing empathy
increasing distances strengthens
differences is causing a decline
our ability to develop
empathy is for the other this was a
research also done is between until 2009
who worked on this internet impact
so if I can leave a message
I would say to you today if you remember
that we are writing together to
narrative of our existence is instead
to promote hatred and violence
share peaceful actions and examples
positive that inspire and transform the
instead of highlighting what we
distance we are going to show what we
approaches and makes us
the same as humans is and that’s how we
Let’s build a narrative together
of a better world for all
thank you
[Applause]
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