FYI
CALL FOR PAPERS AND ART WORKS
The research project “Political Technologies
of Memory: A Genealogy (1973-2013) of the Devices of Registration, Denunciation, Compensation and Memory of Human Rights Violations by the Military Dictatorship in Chile” of Alberto Hurtado University, the Interdisciplinary Programme in Memory and Human
Rights of the same university, invite the submission of papers and art works for its international conference “Registering Political Violence: Technologies, Uses, and Effects.”
This international conference will analyse and critically assess different experiences of public and private registry and accounting
for contemporary episodes of massive political violence. The conference will address cases of societies torn apart by experiences of war, armed conflicts, state repression, genocide, massacres and forced migration involving politically motivated gross human
rights violations, from the particular perspective of the registration and communication of these atrocities to society at large.
Proposals for papers may address but are not limited to the following general topics:
In addition, artists, activists, university academics, and designers are
encouraged to submit short audio-visual material, digital work and projects related to the central issues posed by the conference.
International Keynotes:
Vikki
Bell, Goldsmiths College
Béatrice
Fraenkel, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences, France.
DATES AND DEADLINES
-Paper abstracts submission: 10th October 2017
-Audio/visual work submission: 10th October 2017
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