(TAD 140: Intro to Dance) - 9-9:50 am, Blazer Hall, Dance Hall
(TAD 140: Intro to Dance)—10-10:50 am, Blazer Hall, Dance Hall
(TAD 142: Ballet I)—11-12:15 am, 117 Fine Arts
Tamburello workshop part 1–12:30 pm-1:50 pm, 22 Fine Arts
All sessions at W. T. Young Auditorium, University of Kentucky
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Schedule W. T. Young Library Auditorium |
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9:00 |
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Introductory remarks |
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9:15 |
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The French Revolution and the European Memory of Violence Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky |
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10:00 |
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Law, Morality, and Violence in Nazi Germany Herlinde Pauer-Studer, University of Vienna |
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11:15 |
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“Inadmissible” but Secondary: Algerians, the Parisian Police and the Afterlives of State Terror Lia Brozgal, UCLA |
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1:30 |
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Weapons of Mass Instruction: Historical Narratives as a Destructive and Reconstructive Force in Former Yugoslavia Charles Ingrao, Purdue University |
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2:30 |
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Narcissistic Group Dynamics and the Threat of Violence within Liberal Democracy Stefan Bird-Pollan, University of Kentucky |
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3:45 |
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Aftermath of Violence: Reconceptualizations of Trauma Sara Beardsworth, University of Illinois-Carbondale |
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4:45 |
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Concluding round table
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Karen E. Till is Senior Lecturer of Cultural Geography at Maynooth University and Director of the Space&Place Research Collaborative. Till’s geo-ethnographic research examines the significance of place in personal and social memory, and the ongoing legacies of state-perpetrated violence. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, her publications include The New Berlin: Place, Politics, Memory(2005), Mapping Spectral Traces (2010), and the co-edited volumesTextures of Place (2001) and Walls, Borders and Boundaries (2012). Till’s book in progress, Wounded Cities, highlights the significance of place-based memory-work and ethical forms of care at multiple scales that may contribute to creating more socially just futures.
Throughout Europe, a wave of anniversary commemorations remembering events such as war and division has been celebrated over the past five years. Using examples from the ‘Super-Gedenkjahr’ in Berlin (2014) and the ‘Decade of the Centenaries’ in Dublin, I examine how recalling difficult pasts may extend conservative agendas of ‘normalising’ the nation, but may also work to recall the foundations of the democratic state as a means of challenging forms of current-day social violence in a neoliberal and transnational Europe.
For more information visit: http://www.uky.edu/academy/2016BBS.
For more information on the film series "Europe Through the Lens: a Festival of Contemporary European Films" visithttp://libguides.uky.edu/eurofilm.
"Tell me again about Europe and her pains,
Who's tortured by the drought, who by the rains.
Glut me with floods where only the swine can row" -- William Empson
Europe is in crisis, deep economic and political crisis. With many member-state economies now tottering on zero-growth meltdown, professional politicians and economists persist with austerity drives and devise ideological covers for the continued plundering of public resources. Frack capitalism power-drills into the public realm, extorting value from erstwhile common property. A para-state of technocrats and Euro-bureaucrats, meanwhile, governs, "sending us rain and sunshine from above" (Marx). One big problem such professional representation poses for ordinary Europeans -- for people I shall call amateur shadow citizens -- is PARTICIPATION. Shadow citizens are disenfranchised Euro-citizens who express a citizenship waiting in the wings, a potential solidarity haunting the mainstream, floating across frontiers and through designated checkpoints. This lecture investigates the dialectic between professional austerians and shadow citizens, doing so while attempting to put a fresh spin on Henri Lefebvre's "late" ideal that the right to the city is "nothing less than a new conception of revolutionary citizenship."
Andy Merrifield, Supernumerary Fellow in Human Geography, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Andy Merrifield is a writer, social theorist, and urban geographer. He has taught human geography at the University of Southampton, King's College, London, and Clark University in Massachusetts, and has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the University of Manchester (as Leverhulme Visiting Professor), and the City University of New York CUNY). For a number of years, he was a freelance writer living in France, where he wrote biographies of Guy Debord and Henri Lefebvre, as well as a bestselling "existential" travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys. He is author of nine books; his articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Times, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, New Left Review, Adbusters, Harvard Design Magazine, Radical Philosophy, Monthly Review, and Dissent, amongst others.
