Event Title
Round Table Discussion
Abstract
The wrap-up round table discussions will be held with senior faculty members from the Five Colleges who are experts in the politics of memory and will place Spain in comparative perspective.
Presenter Bio(s)
Christian Gundermann, Associate Professor of Spanish and Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College, specializes in Argentine film, literature and post-dictatorship studies. His research and publications, including his book, Actos melancólicos (Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo, 2007), explore politics in Argentine through film and literature, and on-going identifications with the desaparecidos of the Dirty War. Gundermann’s work also addresses notions of temporality in relation to neoliberalism and globalization. He is currently on a three-year leave of absence from the Spanish department to be able to dedicate himself to Gender Studies full time. Most recently, he has shifted his research interests toward an exploration of the connections between feminism, queer theory, and critical animal studies.
Karen L Remmler is a Professor of German Studies, Critical Social Thought, and Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She specializes in transnational contemporary memory politics in Europe and remembrance of the Holocaust and World War II in literature, film, and current events. She wrote Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature since 1989 with Sander Gilman (New York: NYU Press, 1994) and co-edited Contemporary Jewish writing in Germany: an anthology (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002) with Leslie Morris.
Neil A. Silberman is lecturer and Coordinator of Projects and Policy Initiatives at the newly established UMass Center for Heritage and Society. He is currently President of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation and Presentation. Between 2000-2007 in Belgium, he worked at the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation on heritage projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He is the author of several books in heritage interpretation and the co-editor of Interpreting the Past: Memory and Identity with Claudia Liuzza (2007).
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His work as a cultural and literary critic focusing on language, identity, politics, and history has led him to such topics as Spanglish, the Holocaust in Latin America, Latino studies in the United States, and translation studies. Stavans edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010), The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature (2005) and the multi-volume Encyclopedia Latina (2005), among many other collections. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including The Hispanic Condition (1995), On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (2001), and the forthcoming Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots (2012).
Jacqueline Urla (co-organizer) is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Modern European Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published extensively on Basque identity and language politics, and is currently conducting ethnographic research on historical memory among Spanish Basques as part of a three-year National Science Foundation project on Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces.
Location
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies
Start Date
15-10-2011 1:00 PM
End Date
15-10-2011 2:30 PM
Round Table Discussion
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies
The wrap-up round table discussions will be held with senior faculty members from the Five Colleges who are experts in the politics of memory and will place Spain in comparative perspective.