MSA Online Event: MAWG Panels
11-12 July 2022
Panel 1: Justice, Memory and Activism (10:00 – 12:00 CET)
Looking at the relationship between memorialisation and contentious politics, this panel focuses on the discourses and practices of justice, and the challenges these face.
Andrea Hepworth (Victoria University of Wellington), “Protest Activism at the Plaza de la Gavidia in Spain: Mass Graves and Impunity – A Paralysis of Memory and Justice”
Duygu Erbil (Utrecht University), “Articulation of Justice and Memory in the Afterlife of Deniz Gezmis”
Eva Rüskamp (University of Freiburg), “Remembering Appalachia Right: Activism, Memory and (Eco-) Justice in Rural Sustainable Futures”
Moderator: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
Panel 2: Gender, Memory and Activism (12:00 – 14:00 CET)
This panel explores the gendered processes of cultural, artistic, and socio-political practices in the dynamics between memory and activism.
Hannah Katalin Grimmer (University of Kassel), “Históricas – Women Artists in the Streets. The Social Uprising in Chile from October 2019 and its artistic expressions”
Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University), “Gender, citizenship and memory activism – On Intersectionality, Transnational Solidarity and Black Lives Matter”
Tebessüm Yılmaz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Moderator: Clara Vlessing (Utrecht University)