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30.05.2024
Witnessing through Literature and the Arts
About this event
From 30 May 2024 13:45 to 31 May 2024 18:30
Sciences Po - 1 pl. Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin
A Transdisciplinary Symposium organised by Sciences Po Centre for History, OSUN Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, Sciences Po Institute for the arts and creation
Thursday, May 30
1:45 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
2-4 pm Panel I- Narratives of Witnessing: Intersections of History, Testimony, and Memory in Genocide Studies
- Chairperson: Larissa Muraveva (Bard College Berlin)
- Boris Adjemian (CRH-EHESS), “Early Narratives on the Armenian Genocide: Aram Andonian, Writer and Witness”
- Judith Lyon-Caen (CRH-EHESS), “What does form testify to? Epistemologies of Testimony among Holocaust Survivor-Historians”
- Frédérik Detue (CTELA-Univ. Côte d’Azur.), Charlotte Lacoste (CREM-Univ. Lorraine), Judith Lyon-Caen (CRH-EHESS): “On Interdisciplinarity and Testimony”
4:30-6 pm Artist Address
A Dialogue with French-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: “Reclaiming One’s Own Survival Story”
Welcome Drinks Reception
Friday, May 31
10 am-12:30 pm Panel II- Testimony through Film, Literature, and the Visual Arts:
Witnessing Pandemics and Conflict
- Chairperson: James Harker (Bard Berlin)
- Thibaut Boulvain (CHSP, Sciences Po), “The Spanish Flu: A Quiet Pandemic”
- Laura Kunreuther (Bard College, New York), “Earwitnesses: On the Labor and Testimony of Humanitarian Interpreters”
- Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University-Newark), “Warfront Apocrypha: The Dead, Desertion, and Dystopia”
- Patricia Zalamea (Univ. of Los Andes) and Helena Alviar (Ecole de droit, Sciences Po), “Bearing Witness: Transitional Justice and Land in the Work of Delcy Morelos”
12:30-2 pm Lunch Break
2:30-4:30 pm Panel III- Auto/Fiction, New Media, and Testimony
- Chairperson: Laura Kunreuther (Bard College New York)
- Larissa Muraveva (Bard College Berlin), “Nostalgia for the Immediacy: The Role of the Witness and Mediated Experience in Contemporary Autofiction”
- Julio Prieto (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), “Archive Fever: Hybrid Testimony and Documentary Fiction in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez”
- James Harker (Bard College Berlin), “Autofiction, Social Media, and Collective Testimony”
- Christopher Fort (American University of Central Asia), “Notes on Abdulla Qahhor’s Testimony”
5 pm-6:30 pm Artist/Scholar Address
Alicia Partnoy (Loyola Marymount University), “When Survivors Write: Literature and Discourse of Solidarity”