[ecrea] Seminar on "Moving Memories" - 27 Nov, Senate, University of London

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
Senate House, University of London

Organized by: Jordana Blejmar (IMLR/Liverpool), Andrea Hajek (University 
of Glasgow), Christine Lohmeier (University of Munich/University of 
Bremen) & 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 current 
political conflicts, protest movements and social unrest that have 
become increasingly conducted and communicated through connective and 
ubiquitous media. It assembles a rich array of both scholarly work and 
participatory experiences with regards to the way past beliefs, tactics 
and bonds come to play a role in 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.

On the one hand, the seminar considers how the presence of conflict can 
come to bear upon memories of things past. On the other hand, the 
seminar looks at how memories of conflict and the re-enactments and 
revivals thereof are utilized by different actors in the present. 
Overall, the seminar is based on the idea that contemporary social 
movements, from religious and ethnic conflicts to the current social 
struggles across the globe, have been heavily involved in reviving 
experiences, ideas and practices of past struggles as well as in 
recording, archiving and disseminating documents of the unfolding 
contestations for future mobilization. Plots and notes of settled – won 
or lost – conflicts are, therefore, essential in motivating and moving 
present struggles and protests, as is the creation and dissemination of 
(counter-)memories via visual arts and social networks. In other words, 
frames of memories may become strategic resources in present and future 
mobilization.

The seminar is followed by a roundtable discussion which brings together 
academic research with participatory experience and artistic forms of 
expression regarding the legacies of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in 
Argentina. Speakers will discuss the role of art and social media in 
current forms of social struggle and public protest as well as the 
diverse aspects of being researching activists and activist researchers, 
respectively. The roundtable constitutes a unique opportunity to meet 
two of the most prominent and internationally recognized visual 
Argentinian artists working on memory issues. We will be also 
celebrating and introducing Professor Vikki Bell's forthcoming book, The 
Art of Post-dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional 
Argentina (Routledge, 2014).



PROGRAMME

10-10.30am
Welcome and Introduction

Katia Pizzi (IMLR/Center for the Study of Cultural Memory)

Andrea Hajek (University of Glasgow), Christine Lohmeier (LMU Munich) 
and Christian Pentzold (Technische Universität Chemnitz/Alexander von 
Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) – 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

Respondent: Katia Pizzi (IMLR/CCM)

11.30-12am
Tea and 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

Respondent: Bart Cammaerts (London School of Economics)

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

TBC

Respondent: Terhi Rantanen (London School of Economics)



3.45-4pm
Tea and Coffee

4-5pm
Closing round

Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE) – 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 (IMLR/Liverpool)

Participants:

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


All are welcome but registration is required, so please contact 
Christine Lohmeier ((christine.lohmeier /at/ yahoo.co.uk)).




Dr Christine Lohmeier
Managing Editor Communication Theory
LMU Munich
Winter Term 2014/5: Guest Professor at the University of Bremen
Email:(christine.lohmeier /at/ yahoo.co.uk)
http://christinelohmeier.wordpress.com


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