Event overview
Public lecture by Natan Sznaider who is a Professor of Sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo in Israel.
This talk explores the tension between memory and transitional justice. It looks critically at the concept of trauma and its connection to what can be defined as the ?Never again paradigm, exemplified through the cases of Argentina and Spain, two societies in which the discussions regarding the legacies of dictatorship, state terror, and grave human rights violations have gained an extraordinary importance in present-day political life. ?Desaparecidos of the Military Juntas (1976-1983) and victims of Francoism (1936-1975) are at the center of fervent discussion in which the processes of political violence themselves, as well as the transitional justice models that were adopted in its aftermaths are being revisited, reinterpreted and questioned. To highlight this phenomenon it will introduce classic Greek drama as method and metaphor for an alternative epistemology in memory studies that brings back the genuine political nature of dealing with the aftermath of mass violence in post-conflict societies.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 30 Apr 2014 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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