Event: Surviving Genocide: On what remains and the possibility of representation (Germany, 12/10-13)

Surviving Genocide: On what remains and the possibility of representation
Dates: December 10-13, 2014
Location: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36  –  06114 Halle/Saale  –  Germany

International Conference: Surviving Genocide: On what remains and the possibility of representation
10-13 December
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36  –  06114 Halle/Saale  –  Germany

Organizers: Fazil Moradi, Ralph Buchenhorst, Maria Six-Hohenbalken

The conference scrutinizes the internationally acknowledged ways of dealing with the acts of genocide and discusses modes of representation that transform the survivors’ suffering, coping and claims in the aftermath. It elaborates critical inquiry into the representation of acts of genocide and experiences of such acts in the arts, mass media, law and episteme. Regardless of the different representational modes, they all translate acts of genocide into visual and verbal. Thus, the ways in which poetry, painting, drawing, photography, film, music, literature/fiction, archive, museum, memoir, academic writing, testimony and law or the discreet legal proceedings at national or international court that deal with the acts of genocide in the aftermath are examined. Within this context, the ramification of globally circulating modes of representation, power and gender relations, aspects of social insecurity, dominant political and historical narratives, the ambiguities and the limits of representations, ways of silencing and exclusion (who speaks for acts of genocide and who is silenced) and memorialization are of importance. As an outcome, we seek to investigate interdisciplinary approaches to the field in question and ask if they can contribute to more comprehensive and ethical ways in understanding the long lasting effects and the transformation and complexity of acts of genocide.

More information on http://remep.mpg.de/en/calendar/upcoming_events.html

Please register until 5 December at: kohlhagen@eth.mpg.de