Universität KonstanzExzellenzcluster „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“

Narratives of Terror and Disappearance

7. October 2015

Poster

Final Conference of the ERC project

Introduction (Kirsten Mahlke)

Presentation of the documentary “Sites of Memory/ Espacios de Memoria” by Estela Schindel

Reception with Argentinean wine

The ERC-funded project “Narratives of Terror and Disappearance. Fantastic Dimensions of Argentina‘s Collective Memory since the Military Dictatorship” was active between April 2010 and March 2015.

The final conference gathers the core team and associated researchers to present and discuss the results of the individual and collective projects and to draw the lines for future research.

The research project combined literary studies with political science and social anthropology to examine the different ways in which the figure of the disappeared, the forcefully abducted victims of the military dictatorship, shaped the Argentinean collective memory. Particular attention was paid to the ways in which the fantastic, haunting, and spectrality characterize the narratives of terror and, moreover, whether the fantastic as a mode of cultural communication, tradition, and art disseminates rather than counteracts the experience of horror.

Team Members

  • Kirsten Mahlke (Literature)
  • Liliana Ruth Feierstein (Jewish Cultural Studies)
  • Rosario Figari Layús (Political Science)
  • Silvana Mandolessi (Literature)
  • Mariana Eva Perez (Theatre)
  • Estela Schindel (Cultural Sociology)

Wed–Fri, 7–9 October 2015, 6 pm
University of Konstanz, rooms Y 310/Y 311

Organisation

Ulrike Capdepón ulrike.capdepon[at]giga-hamburg.de

Kontakt

Kirsten Mahlke kirsten.mahlke[at]uni-konstanz.de


Files:
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