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New Directions in the Performance of Violence and Trauma in the Hispanic World

8 May 2014

Keynote address by Diana Taylor forms part of the Graduate School Masterclass on Violence and Trauma: Approaches to Politics, Practice and Performance in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences

New Directions in the Performance of Violence and Trauma in the Hispanic World

 

 

University College Cork

Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

 

River Room

Glucksman Gallery

May 8th 2014

 

9:30-10:30 am

 

Julia Banwell, University of Sheffield

What Remains, Speaks: The Performance of Bodies and Objects in the Work of Teresa Margolles

 

Nuala Finnegan, University College Cork

Ethics and Acts of Witnessing in Ciudad Juárez Art

 

10:30-10:45 am COFFEE

 

10:45-11:30 am Postgraduate Roundtable. Chair: Cara Levey

 

Approaches to Representations of Trauma

With participation from Fiona Clancy and Donna Alexander

 

11:30-12:15 pm

 

Josebe Martínez, Universidad del País Vasco

De la performance del testigo a la “víctima aristocrática”: la lucrativa industria de la memoria del trauma en el Estado Español

 

12:15-1:00 pm Chair: Stephen Boyd

 

Helena Buffery, University College Cork

Traumatic Translations: Memories of Violence in Processes of Self-Translation

Performance by Sonia Boue

Visual Encounters with Tierra Cautiva

1:00-1:45 pm LUNCH

 

1:45-2:45 pm Chair: Niamh McNamara

 

Cara Levey, University College Cork

Afterlives of Terror? Unsettling Intervention in Sites of Memory and Trauma in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay

 

Philippa Page, University of Newcastle

Re-reading Performances of Violence in the Light of Recent Theoretical Developments in the Field of Memory Studies

 

2:45-3:45 pm

 

Claire Launchbury, University of Leeds

Linguistic Violence and Alienation in Juan Goytisolo, Paisajes después de la batalla and Jorge Semprún, L’Algarabie: Displacement and Identity in post-apocalyptic Paris

 

Eva Bru-Domínguez, Bangor University

Phallic Imagery, Violence and Excess: Staging Rebirth in

 El dibuixant by Marcel·lí Antúnez

 

4:00-4:15 pm COFFEE

 

4:15-5:15pm Performance by Beatriz Silva

 

Sangre y lágrimas. Conversaciones con Kama Gutier

Blood and Tears. Conversations with Kama Gutier

 

5:30 pm CACSSS Seminar Room. G27, O’Rahilly Building

 

Diana Taylor, New York University

 

Keynote Address: The Traumatic Repeat: Villa Grimaldi Now and Again

 

Trauma, like performance, is known by the nature of its repeats: “never for the first time.” We speak of trauma only when the event cannot be processed and produces the characteristic aftershocks. The traumatic blow may be in the past, but trauma, like performance, is always experienced in the present. Here. Now. In this piece based on multiple visits to Villa Grimaldi (the torture center in Chile under Pinochet), Diana Taylor explores how trauma and memory sites change over the years, always 'there' ready to be re-activated in the present. 

 

 

This keynote address forms part of the Graduate School Masterclass on Violence and Trauma: Approaches to Politics, Practice and Performance in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences

See: http://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/events/

 

With sponsorship from UCC’s Strategic Research Fund, attendance is free but registration is compulsory. Please email nuala.finnegan@ucc.ie or c.levey@ucc.ie to register interest.

 

 

 

 

Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

First Floor - Block B East O'Rahilly Building University College Cork Ireland

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