3 mrt 2012 | University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom | Beyond Experience: (Re)thinking Women, Violence and Trauma
Saturday 3rd March 2012
Keynote Speakers: Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds); Susannah Radstone (University of East London)
Special Guest: Carmen Castillo (Paris)
Location: University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Registration will open in January.
‘How can we reflect on women’s experiences of political violence beyond victimhood? How do we account for ‘the pain of others’? What place should we grant to ‘experience’ when discussing cultural traumas? How can feminist research tackle the range of women’s experiences of violence? These are some of the questions that this one-day conference seeks to address while challenging the gendered stereotypes and myths that characterise the discourse on women and violence, both within and beyond academia.
This interdisciplinary event acknowledges the importance to approach these topics considering theory as well as practice. Consequently, the keynote lecture will be given by Griselda Pollock, Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of Centre for Cultural Analysis, History, and Theory (CATH), University of Leeds whereas documentary maker Carmen Castillo, former member of a militant leftist movement in Chile, will present and discuss her work Skinny Alejandra. This emblematic documentary deals with the testimony of Marcia Merino, a former militant that betrayed while being tortured and ended up working for Pinochet’s secret police.
The conference seeks to provide a platform for scholars, artists and students to critically explore and re-think women’s experiences and memories of political violence since the 1970s, as well as their representation in scholarly literature and the arts. It includes two panels. The first panel, ‘Moving beyond the perpetrator/victim dichotomy: theorising women’s roles in political violence’ seeks to discuss recent challenges and developments in feminist research on violence. The second one, ‘Regarding the pain of others: re-presentations of traumatic events in film and visual arts’ aims to critically reflect on the (im)possibilities of representing an ‘event at the limits’.
Source: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/be/
