TALK: Approaching Genocide: Representing and Negotiating Mass Trauma in Rwanda and Japan
Mick Broderick (Murdoch University, Australia)
Wednesday, April 23 / 2:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
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Based on field work at memorial museums in Kigali, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this presentation will contrast the official, institutional narratives of traumatic violence with the testimony and reconciliation dramas created by survivors for alternative public display. Drawing from Broderick’s own new media installation work, EXHALE, the paper will also ponder the ethics of artistic responses and aesthetic choices in attempting to represent “the unrepresentable.”
Sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Center for Black Studies Research, the IHC’s East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, East Asia Center, and the Mbanefo Foundation Lecture Fund of the Dept. of History of Art & Architecture.
