WOMEN MOBILIZING MEMORY:
COLLABORATION AND CO-RESISTANCE FULL PROGRAM
Examining the politics of cultural memory from the perspective of social difference, this international conference will analyze strategies by which artists, scholars and activists have succeeded in mobilizing the memory of political and social violence to promote redress, social justice, and a democratic future. The conference features members of a multi-year transnational and interdisciplinary working group that is bringing to New York discussions generated in Chile and Turkey. They are joined by local colleagues working on gender and memory. Roundtables will address protest actions and their efficacy, ranging from the “Saturday Mothers” to “Black Lives Matter;” strategies for mobilizing political action around memory sites in Istanbul, Santiago and New York; and the ways in which lives touched by political violence and social death can be reanimated through writing and art. Exploring resonances and connections among divergent histories of violence, the conference will also explore the limits of such comparative work, while attempting to forge a feminist practice of solidarity and co-resistance.
The conference accompanies an exhibit “Collaborative Archives: Connective Histories” at Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, NYU.
September 7-18, 2015.