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Inaugural Session of the Cultural Memory Seminar Series
Spaces of Memory in Comparative Perspective: Performing Life in Former
Sites of Suffering and Death
October 26, 11- 4pm,
Institute of Modern Languages Research (University of London)
Senate House, Room G37 (ground floor). Free.
In the aftermath of diverse experiences of political terror and of
large-scale suffering and loss, this panel explores the ethical,
political and managerial dilemmas that have arisen in the
transformation of former sites of repression into spaces of
commemoration and morning. It will feature different case study
presented by scholars working on specific spaces of memory from
various geographies, including Latin America, Africa, and Europe.
Ultimately, the question that mobilises this conversation is how to
host new hospitalities and dialogues in the wake of loss.
11.00 - 11.15: Welcome & Introduction Prof. Jens Andermann (Zurich)
11.15 - 11.55: Prof. Patrizia Violi (Bologna): "The Experientialist
Visitor: From Witness to Performer"
11.55 - 12.35: Dr. Silke Arnold-de Simine (Birkbeck) "Remembering What
Happened At This Site: In Flanders Fields (Ypres) and the
Militärhistorische Museum Dresden"
12.35 - 13.30: Lunch break
13.30 - 14.10: Dr. Cecilia Sosa (University of East London):
"Celebration and Mourning: The Barbecue Scandal at ESMA, Argentina's
main former Detention Camp".
14.10 - 14.50: Dr. Joost Fontein (Edinburgh): "Re-making the dead,
uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe"
14.50 - 15.10: General response: Prof. Jens Andermann
15.10 - 16.00: Roundtable discussion.
Dr. Emanuela Patti
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Stewart House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Tel. n. 02078628962
Fax. n. 02078628672
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