19-20 May 2016, Lectures on Memory and Visuality, Florence
The intersection between visuality, memory and politics is a crucial field of inquiry for the BABE research project, calling attention to the historical processes through which practices of mobility and border regulation have reconfigured the European space after 1989. The two invited lecturers aim to enlarge our methodological perspective by discussing research fields and approaches based on colonial and postcolonial India. They will explore how visual meanings were generated and transformed in relation to the geopolitics of empire and to the national self-making of post-colonial India, and will shed light on the cultural and institutional relations shaping political spaces. Furthermore, their contributions will discuss how protocols of personal identification as well as the visualization of material/imagined borders reflect multiple temporalities. Thursday 19 May Film in the Archive of Mediatized Politics by Professor Ravi Vasudevan (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi) Presentation Friday 20 May The ‘Look’ of the Document: The Colonial Subject in Transit, British India, 1882-1921 by Professor Radhika Singha (Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) Presentation Programme10-11 March, Cultural Memory and Oral History in Global Perspective
Joint Initiative of Professors Alexander Etkind and Luisa Passerini.
This workshop aims to explore the connections between various forms of memory and their recording, transmission and preservation through different media, as these have been developing in the last fifty years across the globe. Particular relevance will be given to exchanges and osmosis between cultural and geopolitical areas as well as fields of knowledge and the arts.
Programme5 June 2015, Practices Across Borders. Visuality, Aesthetics, Memory
05 June – 9:30 to 17:30
The workshop is aimed to discuss methodological approaches to the intersection between memory and mobility in visual works and contemporary artistic practices as one of the key concerns of the Bodies across Borders. Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond (BABE) Research Project. Invited researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds will offer the opportunity to focus on transversal issues such as: the relationship between different forms of visuality; connections and discontinuities between social memory processes and aesthetics; social practices involved in processes of production, circulation, exhibition, and reception of artistic works. In each session two invited scholars will present papers followed by responses from members of the Project Research team Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia Via Giovanni Boccaccio, 121, 50133 Firenze, Italy MORNING SESSION : AESTHETIC TRACES OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL TRANSITS Chair: Graziella Bonansea (BABE Research Associate, EUI) Pascal Dubourg Glatigny (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris): Déplacements et restrictions du champ d’intervention artistique au rythme des migrations (abstract) Chiara Bertola (Senior Curator, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia): Conserver le futur: temporalités et travail dans le contemporain AFTERNOON SESSION : ARCHIVAL AND MAPPING IMPULSES IN ARTISTIC AND VISUAL PRACTICES Chair: Liliana Ellena (BABE Research Associate, EUI) Giovanna Zapperi (École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Bourges): The Archive as a Contact Zone Simon Harvey (Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts, Trondheim): Mapping Transitions: Counter-Cartographical Responses to Flow and Fixity in a World of Mobility (abstract) ProgrammeVideo on YouTube channel
Itineraries of Mobile Subjectivities: Young Migrants in an Italian CTP
(Centro Territoriale Permanente Gabelli, Torino — Centre for the Study of Italian Language and Citizenship)Memory and the Archive: Collection, Interpretation and Conservation of Oral and Visual Documents
Workshop held 15.1.14. A central research focus of the BABE project is the gathering of migrants’ itineraries. This is done in both oral and visual form, so either in recorded interviews and/or in drawings done by the migrants themselves. In the interviews they put into word, gesture and body language these itineraries and in the drawings they undertake a creative imaging of their itinerary. The materials of documentation are to be deposited in the Historical Archives of the European Union at the EUI. One of the important questions the materials thus gathered pose then will be, how to archive this documentation.Programme (Download PDF)
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List of Papers
Luisa Passerini (BABE Principal Investigator), Living Archives. Continuity and Innovation in the Art of Memory Catherine Previti Allaire (archiviste aux AHUE), La Collection d’histoire orale des Archives historiques de l’Union européennePresentation of the ERC Project BABE
Inaugural presentation of the Project on the 15th of November 2013 at the EUI, in Villa Schifanioa. The following members of the Advisory Committee were present: Prof. Pilar Folguera Crespo; Prof. Ioanna Laliotou; Prof. Lutz Niethammer; Prof. Marina Nordera.Programme (Download PDF)
Morning: Intents and Scope of the Project
Chair: Federico Romero 09.30 Introduction: Luisa Passerini: BABE, Bodies Across Borders. Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond (Paper PDF) 10.30 Coffee Break 11.00 First Session: Memory, Mobility, and Visuality Luiza Bialasiewicz: Mapping Mobile Memories: Narrating Identities Across Spaces Liliana Ellena: Performing Post-colonial Memory: Visual Practices and the Archive (Paper PDF) 13.00 LunchAfternoon: Field Research on Individual and Cultural Memory
Chair: Anna Triandafyllidou 14.30 Second Session: Oral and Visual Memories Gabriele Proglio: Memories of Women from the Horn of Africa (Paper PDF) Leslie Nancy Hernández Nova: La trasmissione delle cosmovisioni nelle migrazioni peruviane attraverso l’Europa: tra arte e tradizione (Paper PDF) 16.00 Coffee Break 16.30 Third Session: Induced Reception and Mapping Graziella Bonansea: Narration, Closeness and Distance: A Case-Study in an Italian High School (Liceo Artistico Buniva, Pinerolo) (Paper PDF) Luisa Passerini: Itineraries of Mobile Subjectivities: Young Migrants in an Italian CTP (Centro Territoriale Permanente Gabelli, Torino – Centre for the Study of Italian Language and Citizenship) (Paper PDF) 20.00 DinnerSpeakers:
Luiza Bialasiewicz: BABE Senior Researcher, Jean Monnet Professor of EU External Relations (University of Amsterdam – BABE co-beneficiary) Graziella Bonansea: BABE Research Assistant Liliana Ellena: BABE Research Assistant Leslie Nancy Hernández Nova: BABE Research Assistant Luisa Passerini: BABE Principal Investigator, Part-time Professor at the Department of History and Civilization (European University Institute) Gabriele Proglio: BABE Collaborator, Doctoral Student (University of Turin) Federico Romero: Professor of History of Post-War European Cooperation and Integration and Head of the Department of History and Civilization (European University Institute) Anna Triandafyllidou: Director of the Global Government Programme Research Strand on Cultural Pluralism at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute)Members of the Scientific Committee:
Pilar Folguera Crespo (Universidad Autonóma de Madrid) Ioanna Laliotou (University of Thessaly) Lutz Niethammer (Emeritus, University of Jena) Marina Nordera (Université Sophia-Antipolis, Nice) Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths, University of London)- 1
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