| 26 Jun 2023 - 27 Jun 2023 | All day | Old Labs, Newnham College (closed workshop) | |
- Description
- Programme
Description
Convenors
Yael Navaro, University of Cambridge
Speakers
- Alice von Bieberstein, Humboldt University
- Zerrin Özlem Biner, University of Kent, Canterbury
- Barbara Bodenhorn, University of Cambridge
- Tianna Bruno, University of Texas, Austin
- Liana Chua, University of Cambridge
- Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
- Zuzanna Dziuban, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Paola Filippucci, University of Cambridge
- Safet Hadzimuhamedovic, University of Cambridge
- Hannah Knox, University College London
- Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford
- Laura Ogden, Dartmouth College
- Layla Renshaw, Kingston University
- Daniel Ruiz Serna, University of British Columbia
- Ruba Salih, University of Bologna
- Anand Vivek Taneja, Vanderbilt University
- Umut Yıldırım, Geneva Graduate Institute
Summary
Memory has been mostly theorised through human-centred associations, via studies of the psyche, subjectivity and interiority, on the one hand, and of cultural production, mediation, and representation, on the other. Most studies in this vein have approached memory as socially or culturally constructed, and as a reflection of the human imagination. This conference opens the field of memory studies to ‘more-than-human’ dimensions, attending especially to sites of genocide and ecocide. Can memory be studied as having ‘other-than-human’ registers in spaces where people have been targeted with mass violence and annihilation? Do natural forms have memory? Do animals? Can the environment be read as having a sort of ‘memory’? Can trees? a mountain? the sea? Might there be cosmological forms of memory? Do sacred sites harbour memory, or is memory necessarily secular? And how do ‘non-human’ entities (such as objects and spaces) retain memory?
This event will bring anthropologists, archaeologists and environmental historians into an interdisciplinary conversation about memory’s beyond human-centred and further than anthropocentric whereabouts. Scholars of genocide will be in conversation with scholars of the anthropocene to explore the potentially transformative social and political possibilities of ‘more-than-human memory.’
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Programme
Day One: 26 June 2023 Old Labs, Newnham College, Cambridge |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Registration and refreshments The foyer of the Old Labs, Newnham College |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Welcome and introductory talk: Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Panel One
Discussant & Moderator: Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch College Hall, Newnham College |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Panel Two
Discussant & Moderator: Ruba Salih (University of Bologna) |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Tea and coffee break |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Panel Three
Discussant & Moderator: Zerrin Özlem Biner (University of Kent) |
| 18:00 | Close of the first day of conference |
Day Two: 27th June 2023 Old Labs, Newnham College, Cambridge |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Refreshments The foyer of the Old Labs, Newnham College |
Panel Four
Discussant & Moderator: Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge) |
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| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch College Hall, Newnham College |
| 14:00 | Panel Five
Discussant & Moderator: Layla Renshaw (Kingston University) |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Tea and coffee break |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Panel Six
Discussant & Moderator: Paola Filippucci |
| 18:00 | Close of conference for attendees |
