Upcoming Seminar
Picturing Ghosts in Post-Dictatorship Chile: Interdisciplinary Thoughts on Memory, Haunting and Cultural Production
2 November 2022, 16:00-17:30 GMT
Online
Speakers: Cara Levey (UCC), Jordana Blejmar (Liverpool), Graham Dawson (Brighton) and Struan Gray (Falmouth)
Chair: Joseph Ford (CCM/IMLR)
This panel discussion will consider the value of haunting as a lens for interrogating the cultural afterlives of authoritarian violence and social struggle, focusing on the context of post-dictatorship Chile. The speakers will respond to Struan Gray’s recently published monograph Picturing Ghosts: Memories Traces and Prophesies of Rebellion in Postdictatorship Chilean Film, published as part of Peter Lang’s Cultural Memories series in 2022. Looking at haunting as a textual trope, a conceptual metaphor and a structure of feeling, the book asks to what extent film can enact an alternative form of historiography, in which seemingly distinct histories imaginatively interact.
Co-hosted by the IMLR’s Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (CCM) and Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the event aims to nurture conversations between Latin Americanists and scholars of memory, engaging with emerging debates about spectrality, cultural memory and the politics of time in ‘post-conflict’ contexts.
This event is the first in a new discussion series at the CCM on its book series, Cultural Memories, published by Peter Lang, Oxford.
All are welcome to attend this free event, which will be held online via Zoom at 16:00 GMT.
Please register in advance to receive the online joining link: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/picturing-ghosts-post-dictatorship-chile-interdisciplinary-thoughts-memory-haunting-and
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