Dear all,
Please find below details of a very interesting conference that will bring
anthropologists and other scholars together working on the fields of
memory, violence and post-conflict exhumations. The conference will take
place in Madrid in July.
All best,
Zahira
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Zahira Araguete-Toribio
PhD Visual Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London
Email: [log in to unmask]
We are delighted to invite you to our international conference “*Body,
science, memory and politics in contemporary exhumations*“, taking place at
CCHS-CSIC (Madrid) on *July 2nd and 3rd, 2015*.
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Archaeologist Zoe Crossland describes mass exhumations as existing “at the
intersection of multiple evidential regimes that articulate different and
often conflicting expectations for archaeological practice” (2013: 122).
The closing conference of the I+D+i project The past below earth:
exhumation and memory politics in contemporary Spain in transnational and
comparative perspective will pause on these multiple evidential regimes and
consider the ways in which the exhumed body produces meanings –
scientifically, socially, politically and culturally – in the context of
mass grave exhumations.
Over the last ten years, exhumation practices have become increasingly
important in attempts to come to terms with violent pasts. With that, the
exhumed body has shaped and transformed not only forensic and judicial
values and practices, but also political, social and cultural discourses.
This conference seeks to bring into dialogue the different practices,
methodologies and theoretical concerns that approach the modern memory and
human rights regime from the perspective of the exhumed body as a material
and discursive object. By generating cross-disciplinary debate and putting
into dialogue comparative case studies, we approach exhumed bodies from a
transnational and comparative perspectives objects of analysis that can
help illuminate the complexity of making meaning and staking claims through
our engagements with bodily evidence in the public sphere.
How does the exhumed body, understood as an object of technical, cultural
memory and as a performative subject, relate to and draw on an emergent
transnational map of memories and violent pasts?
The conference will take place in Spanish and English. Simultaneous
translation will be available.
*Free entry with registration*. To register, please contact us before June
29th at *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* with
the following information: (1) Name and ID and (2) whether you need an
attendance certificate.
*Organization*:
Chairperson: Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC)
Scientific Committee: Lee Douglas (NYU/CSIC), Francisco Etxeberria
(UPV-EHU/ ARANZADI), Marije Hristova (U Maastricht), Zoé de Kerangat
(CSIC/UAM), Julián López (UNED), M.Laura Martín-Chiappe (CSIC/UAM), Alfonso
Villalta (UNED).
http://www.politicasdelamemoria.org/en/
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
Salón de Actos
C/ Albasanz, 26-28, Madrid.
Metro Ciudad Lineal y Suanzes (L5)
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