Symposium
Two-day symposium on memory and trauma through the history and culture of migrations announced for October 9th and 10th
We are pleased to announce, in collaboration with the Department of Humanities and with co-sponsorship from the Institute for Humanities, a two-day online symposium entitled "Memory and Trauma Through History and Culture: Migrations" on October 9th and 10th.
The 2015 Migration Crisis highlighted not only the enduring tragedy of mass displacement at the heart of global migratory flows but also the failure of migratory politics to address it. Crises seem to have become the status quo of the current century but perhaps the real crisis is the inability of social discourse to produce concrete analysis beyond a depoliticized humanitarianism and to transform analysis in action. How can the Humanities intervene in such discourse? The study of mass migration is often done in isolation, both in terms of the events themselves and in terms of academic disciplines. Also, the experiences of individuals participating in these events are often neglected due to migration studies being a policy-driven field. This event, a multidisciplinary initiative examining migration in different geographic and historic contexts, will highlight the continuities and breaks that exist within the phenomenon. The symposium will also offer political and cultural insights into how migration has, and continues to, shape our world, and in so doing establish a dialogic space on the issue.
When:
Friday, October 9th from 2:30-6:30 pm and Saturday, October 10th, 2020 from 9:30-3:30pm
Where:
Online
How:
This event is free and open to the public. Register before Wednesday, October 7th, to receive a link to the webinars. Missed the registration deadline? Send an email to hscomm@sfu.ca if you would still like to participate.
Event schedule
Friday, October 9th: 2:30 - 6:30 PM PT
Keynote Presentation - 2:45 PM
Moderator: Shuyu Kong, Simon Fraser University
Canada's Chinese Immigration Act: British Columbia’s Case for Exclusion
Panel I: Migrations in Modern History - 3:15 PM
Moderator: Julian Brooks, Douglas College
Children of Silence: Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Remembering as Trauma
Mobilised Memories of Displacement and Violence
Recreating the Past: Historiography in the People’s Republic of Macedonia, 1945-1991
Panel II: Culture, Art and Migration - 4:45 PM
Moderator: Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser University
Walker’s Tales: Mobility as Method
Speech Acts in Search of a Subject: From Victimization to Enunciation in Recent Immigrants’ Life Writing in Italy
Inherited Memories: Fetishistic and Fantastic (Mis)Rememberings of Palestine
Saturday, October 10th: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM PT
Panel III: Migration and Politics - 9:35 AM
Moderator: Sanem Guvenc, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Scenes from a Traumatic History of Political Theory
Recodifying the Refugee: Palestine, Unspeakable Traumas, and Global Solidarity
Indigenous People and Migration in 21st Century Canada
Panel IV: Migrations in Antiquity, Renaissance and Medieval History - 11:30 AM
Moderator: Dimitris Krallis, Simon Fraser University
The Rebuilding of an Armenian Kingdom: Memory, Myth, Restorative Nostalgia, and the Archaeological Landscape
Migration under the Byzantine Empire: The Case of the Hot Border in Nisibis
Panel V: Migrations and Impact on the Individual - 2:00 PM
Moderator: Alessandra Capperdoni, Simon Fraser University
Trauma and Memory Transmission: Silence and the Body
Memories from War: Living in Borderless Zones
Three Centuries, Three Continents, One Family
Organizers
Co-organizers include assistant professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations James Horncastle, and lecturers Eirini Kotsovili and Alessandra Capperdoni from Simon Fraser University’s Department of Humanities.