Russia-South Africa Roundtable Programme
Aesthetics of Cruelty: Representations of Violence and Dehumanisation in Russia and South Africa
9 – 10 December 2020
Aesthetics of Cruelty will engage an interdisciplinary lens to explore the intersection of the politics of memory and the arts in the context of ongoing debates about histories of repression and violence, and more specifically the traumatic pasts of the Soviet Gulags and apartheid. Focusing on the transgenerational repercussions of these violent histories, this project is part of our interest in both scholarly research and public scholarship on the representation of past crimes through film, visual arts, photography, performing arts, and narrative representation of stories of suffering. The colloquium will be organised along three categories: (a) trauma narratives and bearing witness; (b) visual arts and photography; (c) performance art and exhibitions.
View speakers' bios here: http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/arts/historical-trauma-transformation/Pages/Russia-South-Africa-Roundtable-Speakers.aspx
Programme
9 December 2020
SESSION 1 | REGISTER HERE: https://maties.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GgjCdt_kQAKZgsKg_X_aNQ |
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12:00 – 12:15 PM | WELCOME |
Professor Pumla
Gobodo-Madikizela | |
Prof Anastasia Mitrofanova | |
12:15 – 13:15 PM
| OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE |
Title: "Representing, or Re-conceptualizing Suffering? Case Studies of the Narratives of Gulag Survivors" | |
Respondent:
Prof Katya Tolstaya | |
Virtual Audience Discussion | |
13:15 – 14:00 PM
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LUNCH BREAK
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SESSION 2 | REGISTER HERE: https://maties.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cjOn18j0S0W6G6SdQyadqQ |
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14:00 – 15:30 PM NB: GMT+2 | PANEL PRESENTATION: Curator in Dialogue with Artist Scholars |
Title: “After Fire" | |
Stephané Conradie | |
Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja | |
Virtual Audience Discussion | |
15:30 – 16:15 PM
| CLOSING KEYNOTE LECTURE |
Prof Bj?rn Krondorfer | |
| Title: "All That Is Left: Memory Objects and the Aesthetics of Cruelty" | |
Virtual Audience Discussion |
10 December 2020
SESSION 3 | REGISTER HERE: https://maties.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HSVYXYVPTYSlmOE7cCNLuw |
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CHAIR: Dr. Melike Fourie |
12:00 – 12:50 PM
| OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE |
Title: "What Might We Become?
Understanding Catastrophe from Slavery to Post-apartheid" | |
Virtual Audience Discussion | |
12:50 – 14:15 PM
| PANEL PRESENTATION |
| CHAIR: Prof Anastasia Mitrofanova | |
Prof Anna Suvorova | |
Title: “Outsider Art and Soviet Psychiatry: Alexander Lobanov's Case" | |
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Dr Andrea Gullotta (Lecturer, School of Modern Languages & Cultures, 肆客足球 of Glasgow) | |
Title: "Where is Hell"? Representational Challenges of the Virtual Exhibition "Beauty in Hell
Culture in the Gulag" | |
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Pfunzo Sidogi
(Lecturer, Department of Fine and Studio Arts, Tshwane 肆客足球 of Technology) | |
Title: “'Apartheid Concentration Camps': The Brutalities of Urban Segregation in the Work of Black South African Artists" | |
Virtual Audience Discussion | |
14:15 – 14:30 PM
| CLOSING REMARKS: Brief Reflections and Acknowledgments |
Dr. Melike Fourie | |
Professor Pumla
Gobodo-Madikizela |
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