[ecrea] Representations, Uprisings and Violence: Vignettes from Turkey and Greece

*Representations, Uprisings and Violence: Vignettes from Turkey and Greece*

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 4-7pm
University of East London, Docklands campus
Room SD.1.12   FREE ENTRANCE

This evening brings together documentary film and testimonial 
performance in an event that stages (or projects) the underlying 
tensions between popular uprisings and political responses. The two 
contributions to the event aim to unpack the relationship between the 
politics of representations and the mediation of conflict and violence. 
Some of the concerns explored are:

·      The politics of representation and the limits of representative 
democracy
·      Art as a political response to dominant representations
·      Protest, violence and representation

With solidarity and struggle as the central motifs the event considers 
both form and content as the site of contestation.


PROGRAMME

4pm Welcome and Introductions
Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the Centre for Research on 
Migration, Refugees and Belonging, UEL.

4.15 -- 6pm 'Mediating Gezi: Film and discussion'
Dr. Alisa Lebow, University of Sussex.
Discussant: Dr. Cigdem Esin, Centre of Narrative Research, UEL.

Refreshments

6.15 - 6.45 'Virtues of Violence: Performance Lecture'
Dr. Myrto Tsilimpounidi, UEL & Aylwyn Walsh, University of Lincoln

6.45-7.15 Short discussion

A flyer with full details is downloadable here 
<http://fts.uel.ac.uk/download.aspx?file=33475896-f67b-4daa-b6ba-77afa653b2fc>

This event is supported by the following UEL research centres:

The Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging 
<http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/>
The Centre of Narrative Research <http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/>
The Centre for Social Justice and Change <http://www.uel.ac.uk/csjc/>