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Women Mobilizing Memory:Collaboration and CoResistance
Terence Roethlein <[email protected]>
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Terence Roethlein <[email protected]> Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 4:13 PMTo: Terence Roethlein <[email protected]>
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Friend of the Center for the Study of Social Difference:
We would like to invite you to a series of public events initiated by the Women MobilizingMemory project. The events on September 8 and September 10 are part of a fivedayinternational workshop, Women Mobilizing Memory: Collaboration and CoResistance.All events will focus on the strategies by which women artists, scholars, and activists havemobilized the memory of political and social violence to promote social justice andprogressive social change.
September 8, from 5 to 7 p.m., a reception marks the openingof "Collaborative Archives: Connective Histories," an exhibit at Leroy Neiman Galleryon the Columbia campus featuring an international group of women artists. This will befollowed from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. by a conversation with the artists moderated by CarolBecker, Dean of the School of the Arts. The digital catalogue for this exhibit is availablehere and the poster here.
On September 10, from 9:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. in Buell Hall on the Columbia campus therewill be a conference consisting of three public roundtables featuring a distinguished groupof international scholars and artists. One roundtable will address protest actions and theirefficacy, ranging from the "Saturday Mothers" to "Black Lives Matter;" a second will discussstrategies for mobilizing political action around memory sites in Santiago, Istanbul, andNew York; and a third will explore how lives touched by political violence and social deathcan be reanimated through writing and art. The full conference program for the day'sevents is available here and the conference poster here.
The day will conclude with a communitywide Wishing Tree community memory project onthe Buell Hall lawn that will memorialize the victims of violent histories.
The members of the Center for the Study of Social Difference hope you can take time outfrom your busy schedule to attend any or all of the events.
We are grateful to the following cosponsors:Columbia University Seminars; School of the Arts; Graduate School of Arts andSciences; Columbia Global Centers; Center for Oral History Research; HeymanCenter for the Humanities; Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality;Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Center for the Study of Ethnicity andRace; Department of English and Comparative Literature; Department of Iberian andLatin American Studies; Armenian Center; Office of the Vice Provost for Diversityand Inclusion; Institute for the Study of Human Rights; Barnard Center for Researchon Women; The Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics; New York State
Council for the Humanities; and Sabanci University.
Image: "Iran Iraq," 2011 by Lorie Novak
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