Aula Aberta

Memory and Change in times of crisis

Emily Keightley

Francisco Ferrándiz

9 de dezembro de 2022, 10h00-13h00

Sala 1, CES | Alta

Apresentação

"Memory and Change in times of crisis" procura debater as políticas da memória, as negociações e apropriações do passado e as reivindicações públicas num contexto de crise política e social. Com a presença de dois especialistas em Estudos da Memória, Emily Keightley e Francisco Férrandiz, o encontro será focado nos casos espanhol e britânico. Tomará o formato de um encontro particularmente destinado a alunos/as de doutoramento.


Programa

Emily Keightley: Towards a postcolonial (media) memory studies: Concepts, conversations, and methodological challenges
Francisco Férrandiz: Cuelgamuros in its labyrinth


Notas biográficas

Emily Keightley is Professor of Media and Memory Studies in the Centre for Communication and Culture at Loughborough University. Her research interests centre on the mediation of time and memory in everyday life and she is currently the principal investigator on the Migrant Memory and Postcolonial Imagination project (2017-2024) funded by The Leverhulme Trust. She edits the journal Media, Culture & Society and is on the editorial board of Memory, Mind & Media.

Francisco J. Ferrándiz is Associate of the Center of Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His research in the anthropology of the body, violence and social memory encompasses two main ethnographic objects: the spiritist cult of María Lionza in Venezuela and, since 2003, the politics of memory in contemporary Spain, through the analysis of the current process of exhumation of mass graves dating from the Civil War.


Sessão coorganizada pelo projeto 'CROME - Memórias cruzadas, políticas do silêncio: as guerras coloniais e de libertação em tempos pós-coloniais' e pelos programas de doutoramento "Discursos: História, Cultura e Sociedade" e "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies".