Seminar by Vanessa Agnew: ‘Reenacting Genocide’

Vanessa Agnew’s talk will deal with the reenactment of genocidal acts committed in various historical contexts – the Ottoman Empire, Germany, Rwanda and Indonesia – and, by interrogating comparative genocide studies, enquire into the promises and limits of reenactment as a form of memory work.

The talk will be followed by a response by Judith Keilbach (Media and Cultural Studies Department, Utrecht University)

Vanessa Agnew (University of Duisburg) has published widely in relation to music, colonialism, and re-enactment as a mnemonic practice. Her publications include Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds (Oxford UP, 2008) and Settler and Creole Reenactment (edited with J. Lamb, Palgrave 2010).

See further: https://uni-due.academia.edu/VanessaAgnew

Judith Keilbach (Utrecht University) is the author of Geschichtsbilder und Zeitzeugen (LIT, 2008) and co-editor of Grundlagentexte zur Fernsehwissenschaft (UTB, 2002), Die Gegenwart der Vergangeheit (Vorwerk 2003), Fasten Your Seatbelt! (LIT, 2009) and of the academic journal Montage AV. Her research interests include the transformation of television, television history and theory, the relation of media technology and historiography, archives, animals, aerial images, media events, and re-enactment.

This seminar is organised by Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies. Click for more information here.
You can also contact Ann Rigney at a.rigney@uu.nl