Symposium - Tuesday May 9th
Funded by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building (GM 331) - Manchester Metropolitan University
Programme:
- 11.00 Refreshments
- 11.15 Introduction (Professor Antony Rowland & Dr Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University)
- 11.30 Dr Jessica Rapson (Kings College), ‘Commemoration in an age of Moral Amnesia: Empire 2.0 and the Holocaust Memorial for London’ (Chair: Antony Rowland)
- 12.15 Dr Eleanor Byrne, (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘Tropiques: Levi Strauss in Brazil and After’ (Chair: Ginette Carpenter)
- 1.00 Lunch
- 1.45 Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway), ‘Hiss hiss hiss: translating Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ (Chair: Eleanor Byrne)
- 2.30 Dr Matthew Boswell (University of Leeds), ‘Reading Genocide Memorial Sites in Rwanda: Eurocentrism, Sensory Secondary Witnessing and Shame’ (Chair: Muzna Rahman)
- Close: 3.30pm approximately
