Program
International Conference Spatialities of Exception, Violence, and Memory
The registration period has been extended until January 31. Registration is mandatory but free of charge.
Wednesday, February 1st
Residencia de Estudiantes
19.00 – 21.00
Inaugural Lecture
Chair: Reyes Mate (CCHS-CSIC)
Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz): The transformative power of memory
Jay Winter (University of Yale): Faces, voices, and the shadow of catastrophe
Thursday, February 2nd
Centre of Human and Social Science (CSIC)
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.30
Welcoming José Antonio Zamora (CCHS-CSIC)
Opening
Pamela Colombo (CCHS-CSIC) and Estela Schindel (ERC-University of Konstanz)
10.30 – 11.00
Introduction
Kirsten Mahlke (ERC-University of Konstanz): Approaches to terror spaces
11.00 –11. 30 Coffee break
11. 30 – 13.30
Panel I - Traces of annihilation in the landscape: Inscriptions and absences
Chair: José Antonio Zamora (CCHS-CSIC)
James Tyner (Kent State University): Violent erasures and erasing violence: Making the Cambodian genocide visible
Zuzanna Dziuban (Adam Mickiewicz University): Landscapes of Traumatic Memory in Contemporary Poland: The Politics of Framing
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 17.00
Panel II - Actors, territories and spaces in processes of political violence
Chair: Pamela Colombo (CCHS-CSIC)
Gabriel Gatti (Universidad del País Vasco): The overwhelming spatiality of the victim. Notes for a countercurrent thinking of a weak identity
Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar (Universidad de los Andes): Towards the body traces: space, confession and the places of law
Francisco Ferrándiz (CCHS – CSIC): Mass graves, landscapes of terror
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 19.00
Lecture
Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London): Violent surfaces: the texture of the laws of war
Friday, February 3rd
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC)
10.00 – 11.30
Panel III – Spatial representations of disappearance and exception
Chair: Gudrun Rath (University of Konstanz)
Juan Mayorga (CCHS-CSIC): Theatrical representations of spaces of exception
Mariana Eva Pérez (ERC - University of Konstanz): The ‘family’ home in the dramaturgy about the disappearance of children in Argentina
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30
Panel IV – Space and monstrosity
Chair: Gudrun Rath (University of Konstanz)
Silvana Mandolessi (ERC - University of Konstanz): Haunted houses, horror literature and the space of memory in Argentine Postdictatorship literature
Meltem Ahıska (Bosphorus University): Monumentality, monstrosity, and counter-memory: A case study from Turkey
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 17.30
Panel V – Spaces of exception: power and resistance
Chair: Estela Schindel (ERC - University of Konstanz)
David Harvey (City University of New York):Memory, that powerful political force (video recorded contribution)
Stavros Stavrides (National Technical University of Athens): Emancipating spatial practices in struggle against the urban "state of exception": Towards the "city of thresholds"?
Pilar Calveiro (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla): Spaces of exception
17.30-18.00 Coffee break
18.00 -19.00 Final discussion
