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Small Acts: Mobilizing Memory Across Borders
December 3, 2015, 7:00 PM
Free
How can the memory of violent pasts be mobilized for a more progressive and hopeful future? This talk responds to the renewed monumentality we find in memory museums, memorials and commemorative rituals that perpetuate nationalism and ethnocentrism. Connecting the memory of the Holocaust with that of other histories of political violence, the talk searches for mobile and mutable artistic practices that can effect little resistances and small acts of repair.
Marianne Hirsch’s work combines memory studies with feminist theory, particularly the transmission of violent histories across generations. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Hirsch is one of the founders of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference.