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Moving Memories
Remembering and Reviving Conflict, Protest and Social Unrest in Connected Times
A one-day seminar and roundtable discussion
27 November 2014, 10am-8pm
Room 243, Senate House, University of London
Organized by: Jordana Blejmar (Liverpool/IMLR), Andrea Hajek (Glasgow), Christine Lohmeier (Münich) & Christian Pentzold (Technische Universität Chemnitz/Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin)
Sponsored by the Institute for Modern Language Research (IMLR), University of London, the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), and the Unit for Global Justice Funds, Goldsmiths
This one-day seminar explores the role memories play in contemporary political conflicts, protest movements and social unrest that have become increasingly conducted through connective and ubiquitous media. It assembles a rich array of scholarly work and participatory experiences with regards to the impact of past beliefs, tactics and bonds in current times of struggle and rebellion, in terms of remembering past and reviving novel conflicts. It does so with a special focus on the production and circulation of memories for protest via digital technologies, new media and art.
PROGRAMME
10-10.30am Welcome and Introduction
Katia Pizzi (IMLR/Center for the Study of Cultural Memory)
Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier and Christian Pentzold – Movements, media and memory. Building blocks of a moving relation
10.30-11.30am Keynote lecture
Joanne Garde-Hansen (University of Warwick) – Iconomy and Memory: on remembering as digital, civic and corporate currency in Brazil and the UK in a time of social protest
11.30-12am Tea & coffee
12am-1.15pm Panel 1: Memory and Activism in Southern Europe
Andrea Hajek (University of Glasgow) – The witches are back! Mediating memories of second-wave feminism in contemporary Italy
Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University) – Selective memories: Memory and Anti-Austerity Protests in Spain
1.15 -2.30pm Lunch
2.30-3.45pm Panel 2: Memory and Mobilization in Eastern Europe
Félix Krawatzek (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) – Restaging Russia’s Controversial Past: Memory in Political Youth Mobilisation
Rolf Fredheim (Girton College, University of Cambridge) – August 1991 and the memory of communism in Russia
3.45-4pm Tea & coffee
4-5pm Closing round
Pollyanna Ruiz (University of Sussex) – Technology, Activism and the Dynamics of Intergenerational Memory
5.30-8pm Roundtable and book launch Vikki Bell’s The Art of Post-dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina (Routledge, 2014)
Chair: Jordana Blejmar
Speakers:
Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths, University of London) – Post-dictatorship, before memory: Ethics & in/aesthetics
Graciela Sacco (Visual Artist) – Admissible tension
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (University of Cambridge) – Nudities: León Ferrari’s political bodies and/in intimate exposure
Claudia Fontes (Visual Artist) – Citizens, tourists and idiots
A wine reception will conclude the day.
Free and open to all but to attend the seminar please REGISTER with Christine Lohmeier: [log in to unmask]
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