Approaches to Postmemory Analysis
Ruth Sanz Sabido has organised a conference, Postmemory Analysis, to take place at Canterbury Christ Church University on 3 July 2018.
Remembering what we have not lived: Approaches to Postmemory Analysis
Powell Building
North Holmes Road Campus
Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury (UK)
3 July 2018
This conference is funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme project ‘Remembering what we have not lived: Postmemory Analysis of Franco’s violence in Spain’, and by the Centre for Research on Communities and Cultures.
To register for catering purposes please go here
Provisional programme:
10.00-10.30 Refreshments
10.30-10.35 Welcome
10.35-11.15 Keynote
Documents of Inherited Memories: Entre el dictador y yo, homage and vindication
Laia Quílez Esteve (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
11.15-11.40
‘Keeping the Memory Alive’: The Journey of a Torah Scroll from the Czech Republic to Ramsgate
Maria Diemling (Canterbury Christ Church University)
11.40-12.05
The ‘Mediatization’ of Postmemory
Dov Shinar (Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem)
12.05-12.30
Kosovo Diaspora, Migration and Prosthetic Memories
Dafina Paca (Cardiff University)
12.30-12.55
Postmemory and migration: Remembering family histories among grandchildren of Turkish guest workers in Germany
Rieke Böhling (University of Bremen)
12.55-1.30 Lunch
1.30-1.55
Prosaic Persistence: the enduring material potency in (re)membrance & photographic ephemera
Karen J Shepherdson (Canterbury Christ Church University)
1.55-2.20
Researching anthropophagy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: where methods and ethics overlap
Nicola Jones (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
2.20-2.45
Memory for non-witnessed events: the space between vicarious memory and postmemory
Tim Fawns (Edinburgh University)
2.45-3.10
Postmemory Analysis of Franco’s violence in Spain
Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University)
3.10-3.30 Final Remarks
For more details, contact Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido.