Dear all
You can find below the Teams link to access the 2nd session of seminar series "Memorial Sties. Acts of Remembering through Media and Visual Culture" hosted at BIRMAC in partnership with Repercri, Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, TRAME, Perpetrator Studies Network and CITur. You can read a draft for the introduction of The Death in Their Eyes. What do perpetrator Images Perpetrate, Berghahn Books (forthcoming), which Professor Vicente Sánchez-Biosca has made available before his talk, attached.
Session 2: Theoretical frameworks II: Echoes of the Holocaust in Asia
Via Teams: Click here to join the meeting
Time: Tuesday 7 March, 10am-12pm UK time (11am-1pm CET, European Central Time)
Seminar online. The event is free but registration required. Please register here
Presentations:
"The Long Journey from the atrocity paradigm to cultural heritage: Discovering S-21 Building Tuol Sleng"
Professor Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (PI of Repecri, University of Valencia)
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Bio:
Vicente Sánchez-Biosca is Senior Professor of Film History and Visual Culture at the University of Valencia (Spain). He held the Chair for Spanish and Latin American Studies at the King Juan Carlos Center of NYU in 2013, and has co-directed the Art Studies Chair at the IVAM (2016-2018). Visiting professor and scholar at numerous universities (Madison, Montreal, Paris, NYU, Technische Universität Berlin, Sao Paulo…), he leads a comparative research project on six crime scenes turned into sites of memory in Argentina, Chile, Spain, Cambodia, Germany and Brazil. the author of 15 books, among them Miradas criminales, ojos de víctima. Imágenes de la aflicción en Camboya (2017). He has edited with B. Jirku, Geographies of Perpetration. Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence (Peter Lang, 2021). The English version of his book La muerte en los ojos. Qué perpetran las imágenes de perpetrador, English version forthcoming published by Berghahn Books The Death in Their Eyes. What do perpetrator Images Perpetrate.
"The Holocaust in a Chinese Mirror – reflections on Shanghai’s Jewish Refugees Museum"
Professor Edward Vickers (UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship, Kyushu University, Japan)
Bio:
Edward Vickers is UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, and President of the Comparative Education Society of Asia. He researches the history and politics of education in contemporary Asia, especially in Chinese societies (the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan). He also researches the politics of conflict-related heritage in East Asia. His books include Education and Society in Post-Mao China (2017; with Zeng Xiaodong), Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship (2015; with Krishna Kumar), and Remembering Asia's World War Two (2019; with Mark Frost and Daniel Schumacher).
Discussant:
Professor Astrid Erll (Founder of Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Bio:
Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University Frankfurt. In 2011, she founded the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, a vibrant forum for memory studies across the disciplines, connecting researchers both in Frankfurt and internationally. Astrid is general editor of the book series Media and Cultural Memory (De Gruyter since 2004) and author of Memory in Culture (Palgrave 2011), an introduction to memory studies, which is also available in German, Chinese, Spanish, Polish, and Japanese. Together with Ann Rigney, she has published Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory (2009) and Cultural Memory after the Transnational Turn (Memory Studies, 2018). Astrid is member of the Advisory Boards of the Memory Studies Association and of the journals Memory Studies and Memory, Mind & Media. She is currently finishing a book on the global mnemohistory of the Odyssey.
Organised by the seminar director: Dr. Marcos Centeno (University of Valencia. Birkbeck, University of London) [log in to unmask] ; [log in to unmask]
We look forward to your attendance!
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