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Public Engagement
Over the course of the project, we invited the public to engage with the investigators and project partners through a series of public talks, research forums and conferences.
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) – 66th Annual Conference
University College Dublin
Wednesday, 31 March 2021, 10.30 am – 11 am
Alma Prelec, ‘From Sarajevo to Spain: Voices under Siege’
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Anonymous Fund, the Jay & Ruth Halls Visiting Scholar Fund and the College of Letters and Science
‘Performance and Justice: The Baltasar Garzón and la manada (The Wolfpack) Trials on Stage’
11 March 2020, 4:30 ‐ 6:00 pm
260 Bascom Hall
Maria M. Delgado, University of London, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
University of Nottingham
Modern Languages and Culture Seminar
5 February 2020, 4-5.15 pm
‘The jurisdiction of the stage: and El pan y la sal (Bread and Salt): Baltasar Garzón’s historical memory trial as theatre’
Maria M. Delgado
IV Congreso Internacional Performa: Nuevos espacios/nuevos formatos en el teatro español actual
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Friday, 29 November 2019, 1.30 pm – 2p m
Alma Prelec, ‘El activismo social y la (re)creación del pasado: Teatro español en los Balcanes’
Launch of Mezosfera’s special issue Past Contemporary: The Politics of Memory in Social Museums and Public Spaces.
Tuesday 26 November 2019, 6.30-8 pm
CIA, Buenos Aires
Presentation of Issue #7 ‘Past Contemporary: The Politics of Memory in Social Museums and Public Spaces’. Speakers: Eszter Szakacs and Dóra Hegyi (editors) and Cecilia Sosa. The issue includes contributions by Zsófia Frazon – Zsolt K. Horváth, Sara Greavu, Isel Arango Rodríguez, Rose Jepkorir Kiptum, Cecilia Sosa – Philippa Page, and Marta Lança.
Mezosfera is an international magazine on art and culture published and edited by tranzit.hu in Budapest. The publishing project is a platform for the sharing of knowledge and the building of solidarity while connecting non-central geopolitical regions, mainly among the art and cultural scenes in Eastern Europe: http://mezosfera.org/
XXV Jornadas Nacionales de Teatro Comparado
Wednesday 27 November, 4-6pm
María Delgado, “Jauría, por el Teatro Kamikaze”
Bryce Lease and Wojtek Ziemilski, “From Poland to Argentina: Theatre, Memory, Performativity”
Traduce: Cecilia Sosa
Presenta: Jorge Dubatti
2019 David Vilaseca Memorial Lecture
Picture Gallery
Royal Holloway, University of London
Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 6.15 pm
Maria Delgado, “Memory, Politics, Performance and Justice: The Garzón and la manada (wolf pack) cases on stage”
Representing Memory and Reparation: The Spanish Transition in Global Comparative Perspective
IAS Forum, University College London
Monday, 28 October 2019, 6.30-8 pm
A panel discussion with Maria Delgado, Jill Daniels (Arts&Digital Industries, UEL), Seth Anziska (Jewish Studies, UCL), Piotr Cieplak (Media and Film, Sussex), and Emily Baker (Latin American Studies, SELCS, UCL). This panel is organised in response to the film The Silence of Others, which reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day.
Bystanders & Memory: Between the Museum and the Theatre
Public Panel: Erica Lehrer, Roma Sendyka, Bryce Lease
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Friday, 18 October, 6 pm
In December 2018, the exhibition, “Terribly close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust” (Widok zza bliska. Inne obrazy Zagłady), opened at the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, curated by Erica Lehrer, Roma Sendyka, Wojciech Wilczyk, and Magdalena Zych. The exhibition showcases how local artists in Poland attempted to represent the events they witnessed during World War II. The objects on display in the museum challenge what is understood as Holocaust art, expand the field of Holocaust memory studies to include “minor,” “peripheral,” or “awkward” objects, as well as contribute to larger debates about “difficult heritage” or “difficult knowledge”. In collaboration with the curators, the Staging Difficult Pasts project team commissioned Polish artist Wojtek Ziemilski to create a commemorative performance action, which consisted of transporting a wooden toy in a form of a car, described as “truposznica” or a corpse carrier used transport the dead bodies that had been gassed to be cremated, from the Ethnographic Museum to the Cricoteka, housing the objects and machines associated with the work of Tadeusz Kantor. This panel will reflect upon the exhibition and the performance action, discussing tensions between representation and performativity, the dynamic relationships between museal and theatrical frames and memory and history.
The Past Presented: The Presentation of Narratives, Objects & Public Memory
Dublin Festival of History
The LAB Gallery. Dublin Ireland
Thursday, 10 October 2019, 2-4 pm
A panel discussion with Bryce Lease, Sheena Barrett (The LAB Gallery), Owen Boss (Co-Artistic Director of ANU Productions), Lar Joye (Director of Heritage, Dublin Port) and Brenda Malone (National Museum of Ireland). This panel discussion explores the experience of the viewer, audience and reader engaging with the past through contemporary artworks.
International Interdisciplinary Conference: Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Art and Science
University of Minnesota
October 3-4, 2019
Michal Kobialka: ‘Staging Difficult Pasts: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral Memories’
Sites of Violence and Their Communities. Critical Memory Studies in the Post-Human Era
Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland
Wednesday, 25 September 2019, 9-9.30 am
Bryce Lease, “Performances and social rites at non-sites of memory”
ATHE Annual Conference
Orlando, Florida
Wednesday, 7 August 2019, 11:00 am - 12.30 pm
Bryce Lease, ‘Poor Objects: Breaking the Ethnographic Frame’
Before and After Francoism: History, Memory, Politics and Propaganda in Spanish Media and Drama
University of Oslo, Norway
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 10 am-12.15 pm
Maria Delgado, "Historical memory on Trial: Baltasar Garzón and El pan y la sal (Bread and Salt, 2018)"
IFTR
Shangahi Theatre Academy
Wednesday, 10 July 2019, 11:00 am - 12.30 pm
Maria Delgado, ‘Historical memory on Trial: Baltasar Garzón and El pan y la sal (Bread and Salt)
Memory Studies Association Conference
Madrid, Spain
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 12.30-2:00 pm
Panel with Project Team: Staging Difficult Pasts
This panel analyses and compares international approaches to staging difficult pasts across major theatres and museums, including Teatre Lliure (Barcelona), ESMA Museum (Buenos Aires), and the Cricoteka & Ethnographic Museum (Krakow). Our analysis charts how these curatorial and theatrical practices are increasingly informed cross-institutionally.
ResearchWorks Series
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Monday, 17 June 2019, 6:00 pm
Eventbrite booking page online
Staging Difficult Pasts
Panel with Maria Delgado & Bryce Lease
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
University of Manchester
Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 6:00 pm
Staging Difficult Pasts
Panel with Maria Delgado & Bryce Lease
Cricoteka, Kraków
Saturday, 23 February 2019, 5:00 pm
‘Staging Difficult Pasts: Objects in the State of Unrest’
Public forum on the historical and cultural materiality of objects and their function in theatrical and museological practices.
Panellists: Ludmiła Ryba (Teatr Cricot 2), Wojtek Ziemilski, Kolektyw Kuratorski, Erica Lehrer, Roma Sendyka, Katarzyna Fazan and Anna Róża Burzyńska.
Panel chair: Michał Kobiałka.
George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London
Performance Research Forum
Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Affect, Theatricality and Spectacle: Commemoration in the History Museum
Bryce Lease
WAYS OF REMEMBERING LAS MALVINAS/THE FALKLANDS: Lola Arias’ Veterans, Minefield and Theatre of War
School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
Wednesday, 13 February 2019, 4:30 pm
Maria Delgado
TATE Liverpool
BEYOND THESE ROOMS | ANU & CoisCéim’s Dance Theatre
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 11:00 am - 12.30 pm
Panel Discussion: Why Remember?: What place has history in the modern contemporary art space. Object, materials and presentation across art form and culture.
Panellists: Louise Lowe (ANU), Lar Joye (Military Curator), Bryce Lease (Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway)