[Commlist] Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective – Seminar Series and Symposium

We are delighted to share with you the programme of the 
forthcoming Online Conference ‘*Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: 
Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective*’. The event comprises 
both a *Seminar Series* (12 April; 27 April; 4 May) and a 
*Symposium* (19-20 May).

The event will take place online via Zoom and will be hosted by 
University College Cork thanks to the generous support of the IRC, NUI, 
CASiLaC, and the ERC project ‘Translating Memories: The Eastern European 
Past in the Global Arena’.

Seminars and Symposium are open to the public and are free of charge. 
However, *it is compulsory to register in advance. *Please find 
below** the *links to register *for each of the seminars and the 
Symposium. Registrations for the Symposium close on 13 May 2022. Zoom 
links will be circulated to all registered attendees in advance of the 
events.

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*CULTURAL MEMORY OF PAST DICTATORSHIPS:*

*Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective*

April - May 2022

University College Cork

All events will be held on Zoom in the Irish Time Zone

*Seminar Series*

I) 12 April 2022, 5.00 – 6.00 pm

*Michael Lazzara* (University of California, Davis)

/¡Desobedientes!: Implicated Subjects, Memory, and Responsibility in 
Post-Dictatorship Chilean Documentaries/

/Registration: //https://forms.gle/gGyBznfaS7qZwt1aA/ 
<https://forms.gle/gGyBznfaS7qZwt1aA>//

II) 27 April 2022, 5.00 – 6.00 pm

*Juliane Prade-Weiss* (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

/Implication in Commemoration: On Current Interests in Past Complicities/

Registration: https://forms.gle/tAi2oyECvGMZ4ixVA 
<https://forms.gle/tAi2oyECvGMZ4ixVA>

III) 4 May 2022, 5.00 – 6.00 pm

*David Martin-Jones* (University of Glasgow)

/Remembering Cold War Pasts Across a World of Cinemas/

Registration: https://forms.gle/EcgSShUYU7YKDL6E8 
<https://forms.gle/EcgSShUYU7YKDL6E8>

*Symposium*

(19 - 20 May 2022)

University College Cork

Registration: https://forms.gle/upXgJrznTYNAyAxH9 
<https://forms.gle/upXgJrznTYNAyAxH9>

*Day 1 - Thursday 19 May 2022*

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:30 – 11:00 *Panel 1: Victims, Perpetrators, and Beyond*

Bareez Majid (Heidelberg University)

/Literature and Escape: A Critical Reading of the novel /City of White 
Musicians/ by the Kurdistani author Bachtyar Ali/

Claudia Sandberg (University of Melbourne)

/The Story of a Tiger in the Bathroom: German-Jewish filmmaker Peter 
Lilienthal in West German Television of the 1960s /

Esteban Córdoba Arroyo (University of Kitakyushu)

/Heroism, Messianism and Pentateuchal Remorse: Overcoming the Scheme of 
Victims and Perpetrators in the Collective////Memory////of World War 2 
in Japanese Cinema (1980-2020)/

11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 13:00 *Panel 2: Re-Imagining Dictators and Perpetrators in 
Cultural Production*

Rachel MagShamhráin (University College Cork)

/Brother Hitler: The Continuing Allure of Hitler Films in 
Re/unified Germany/

Pooja Sancheti (The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research 
[IISER] Pune)

/Curses and Conspiracies: Reading Mohammed Hanif’s /A Case of Exploding 
Mangoes

Patrick Vierthaler (Kyoto University)

/Founding Father or Traitor to the Nation? Contested Memories of Syngman 
Rhee in mid-1990s South Korea/

Joanne Pettitt (University of Kent)

/The Nazi Paradigm: Holocaust Perpetrators in Representations of 
the British Far-Right/

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:45 *Panel 3: Narrative Perspectives on the Grey Zone *

Ruth Murphy (University of Cambridge)

/Mixing metaphors: Primo Levi's 'grey zone' and Maria Lugones' 'mestizaje/

Lena Seauve (Institute for Latin American Studies [LAI] of the Free 
University of Berlin)**/On the Figure of the Bystander in Martin Kohan's 
/Dos Veces Junio /(2002)/

Jessica Marino (Carleton University)

/Mauricio Rosencof’s /The Letters that Never Came /and Uruguay’s Latest 
Dictatorial Rule—Framing a Redemptive Narrative of the Past through the 
Lens of Jewish Heritage/

Stefano Bellin (University of Warwick)

/Being Numerous: Negotiations of Memory and Responsibility in 
Andrés Trapiello’s /Ayer no más

15:45 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:00 *Panel 4: Generational Memories of Dictatorships*

Mario Panico and Cristina Demaria (University of Bologna)

/A Perpetrator in the Family: Generational Memory and Accountability in 
Documentary Filmmaking/

Jeanne Devautour Choi (Columbia University)

/The Hijos Delayed (Re-)Implication in Argentina's Dictatorial Past/

Cara Levey (University College Cork)

/Diasporizing Memory and Victimhoood: Challenging the ‘exilio dorado’ 
(Golden Exile) Myth in /Tus padres volverán/ [Your Parents Will Come 
Back]/ /and /Hora Chilena/ [Chilean Time]/

Violeta Ros (University of Zaragoza)

/The Portrait of Sad old Men. Domestic Ethnographies of Political 
Violence in Contemporary Spanish Fiction/

17:45 – 18:00 Break

18:00 – 19:00 *Keynote Lecture 1*

Minna Johanna Niemi (The Arctic University of Norway)

/Western Readers and African Narratives: Towards Responsible Reading 
Strategies/

*Day 2 – Friday 20 May *

9:00 – 10:00 *Keynote Lecture 2*

Jie-Hyun Lim (Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, Seoul)

/Mass Dictatorship: Vernacular Memories of Implicated Subjects and the 
Dictatorship from Below/

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:00 *Panel 5: Vectors of Memory of Past Histories of Violence *

Vanessa Tautter (University of Brighton)

/Negotiating the Nazi Past from an Implicated Position: Emotional 
Dynamics in Transgenerational Memory Processes in Austria/

Arif Subekti, Hervina Nurullita, and Grace Leksana (Malang State 
University, East Java)

/Singing the Memories: Local Songs and Indonesia’s Collective Memory of 
Anti Lefitst Violence/

Ethan Xi Hao Eu (National Taiwan University)

/The Weight of Our Sky: The May 13 Incident in a Young Adult Novel and a 
Webcomics Series/

12:00 – 12:15 Break

12:15 – 13:45 *Panel 6: Curating Implication in the Musealisation of 
Dictatorships *

Rose Smith (Charles University - University of Groningen)

/Marcos Dictatorship (Re)Imagined in Museum Design /

Kirsti Jõesalu and Ene Kõresaar (Tartu University)

/Diversification and Alternative Subjectivities in Estonian 
Museums: Memory of Soviet Complicity Revisited/

Margaret Anderson Comer (Tallinn University)

/Portrayals of Perpetration, Victimhood, and Implication at Sites 
of Soviet Repression and Violence in Moscow, Russia/

13:45 – 14:45 Lunch

14:45 – 16:15 *Panel 7: Filling the Gaps in Visual Representations 
of Dictatorships*

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Lucas Martins Néia (University of São Paulo)

/The Military Dictatorship in Brazilian TV Fiction: Approaches and Gaps/

Pablo Turnes (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Free University of Berlin)

/To Dare Damnation. The problem of Vengeance and its Representation in 
Comics in Post-Dictatorial Argentina/

Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo (CY Cergy Paris University – University of Warwick)

/The Novísimo Cine Chileno and the Aesthetics of Trauma/

16:15 – 16:30 Break

16:30 – 18:00 *Panel 8: Looking at the Past, Fighting for the Future*

Emanuela Buscemi (University of Monterrey)

/Memory Activism and Performance in the contemporary Mexican feminist 
movement/

Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida (The Cooper Union)

/Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to 
Today/

Peter B. Kaufman (MIT Open Learning)

/The Sociology of Knowledge: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow/

18:00 – 18:15 Break

18:15 – 19:30 *Roundtable Discussion*

Michael Lazzara (University of California, Davis)

Juliane Prade-Weiss (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

David Martin-Jones (University of Glasgow)

/The event is generously supported by the Irish Research Council (IRC), 
The National University of Ireland (NUI), the ERC project ‘Translating 
Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena’ funded by the 
European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 
research and innovation programme, and The Centre for Advanced Studies 
in Languages and Cultures of University College Cork (CASiLaC)./

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