[ecrea] Seminar 'Moving Memories', School of Advanced Study, U of London

*Moving Memories. Remembering and Reviving Conflict, Protest and
Social Unrest in Connected Times*

The one-day seminar explores the role memories play in contemporary
political conflicts, protest movements and social unrest that have
become increasingly conducted through connective and ubiquitous media.
It assembles a rich array of scholarly work and participatory
experiences with regard to the impact of past beliefs, tactics and
bonds in current 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.

The day will end with a round-table discussion and book launch
entitled 'Art Activism in Post-Dictatorship Argentina'

Organized by: Jordana Blejmar (IMLR/University of Liverpool), Andrea
Hajek (University of Glasgow), Christine Lohmeier (University of
Munich) & Christian Pentzold (Technische Universität
Chemnitz/Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society,
Berlin). Sponsored by: The Institute for Modern Languages Research
(IMLR), the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), University of
London, and the Unit for Global Justice Funds, Goldsmiths

Date: 27 November 2014, 10:00 - 17:00
Place: School of Advanced Study, University of London, Room 243,
Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Free and open to all but to attend the seminar please register with
Christine Lohmeier: (christine.lohmeier /at/ yahoo.co.uk)

The full programme and information about the talks and speakers can be
accessed from here:
http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/16494/Moving+Memories.+Remembering+and+Reviving+Conflict%2C+Protest+and+Social+Unrest+in+Connected+Times


Programme:

10-10.30am Welcome and Introduction

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

Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier and Christian Pentzold – 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


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 (LSE)


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 mobilization

??Rolf Fredheim (Girton College, University of Cambridge) – August
1991 and the memory of communism in Russia

Respondent: Terhi Rantanen (LSE)


4-5pm Closing round
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Pollyanna Ruiz (University of Sussex) – Technology, activism and the
dynamics of intergenerational memory

Respondent: Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths)


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

Speakers:

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

A wine reception will conclude the day.


Looking forward to seeing you there,
Christian



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