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The Sawyer Seminar presents Aftermaths of War: Memory and Histories for the Future (Day 2)

Date & Time

Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 1:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Category

Seminar

Location

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall

15 Washington Street Newark, NJ, 07102

Contact

Mayte Green–Mercado

Information

Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Series Potentialities of Justice: Toward Collective Reparative Futures. Departments: Rutgers – Newark Federated Department of History, Lead Principal Investigator, Mayte Green-Mercard Rutgers – Newark Department of Urban Education, Co-Investigator Lauren Shallish

How can histories of violence be narrated? How can these stories produce more critical, complex, and nuanced pictures that attend not simply to the individual experience of victimization, but might also shed light on experiences of agency? From examining the role of historical thinking and writing in wartime and postwar contexts, and examining the place of literature and art in commemorations of war and conflict, to grappling with the ethical implications of the stewardship of objects that bear witness to histories of extraction and exploitation, this seminar will explore the ways that narrative and storytelling practices have the potential to mediate both violent pasts and the present in ways that may offer reparative tools for the future.

Please join us for the second day of the second event in the Sawyer Seminar Series:  Potentialities of Justice. Toward Collective Reparative Futures. 

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