Geographies of Crime. From Space of Perpetration to Site of Memory. Social and Cultural Representations

Third International Conference on Perpetrators of Mass Violence

29 NOVEMBER – 2 DECEMBER

In this event, the third international conference organized by the REPERCRI research group, we propose to reflect on the spaces of violence as places that contain meanings in tension, especially when, through memorial policies, they have been transformed into spaces of memory.

We are interested in situating the discussion around two major axes which, although closely related, require different perspectives and methodological tools, but which we wish to bring into relation and dialogue.

The first of these axes is the detailed analysis of these spaces of mass crimes and their transformations: how have the spaces of violence, their architecture and their materiality, been transformed over time? How are their changes related to the narratives and disputes about the past that appear in the historical periods that follow the processes of mass crimes? How have these spaces been re-functionalized and re-signified, that is, how have they acquired meanings absolutely different from those they had as crime scenes?

The second axis is the analysis of the cultural imagination deployed around these spaces: how have they been represented in cinema, literature, plastic arts or theater? In what way have cultural productions contributed to propose meanings about these spaces and, thus, about the violence that took place in them? How have cultural representations intervened in the social memory about these violences and in the shared meanings about them?

In the event, we will approach this double axis from a general perspective and through the comparison of four case studies, related to the axes of the research project “From Space of Perpetration to Site of Memory. Forms of Representation” (PROMETEO/2020/059). The first case of discussion will be that of Buchenwald, within the concentrationary universe of Nazism. The second case, linked to Francoism, will be that of the Valley of the Fallen. The third case, linked to the military dictatorships of the Latin American Southern Cone, will compare the spaces of Villa Grimaldi in Chile, the ESMA in Argentina and the Memorial da Resistência in Brazil. The fourth case of discussion will be the S-21 Tuol Sleng in Cambodia. Reflection on these four central cases will be complemented by presentations that address more general issues related to spaces of violence and their historical and cultural resignification.

Video library

Inauguración del congreso + "ECOLOGIES OF VIOLENCE: REVISITING (MI)LIEUX DE M MOIREAFTER THE ENVIRONMENTAL TURN"
(Susanne Knittel)

"PERSÖNLICH SEHR GUT". EPIFANÍAS FOTOGRÁFICAS DEL MAL EN BUCHENWALD Y EN SOBIBOR"
(Anacleto Ferrer)

"LUGARES DE DICTADOR EN LA EUROPA DEL SIGLO XX: PERPETRADORES O HÉROES?"
(Xosé M. Núñez Seixas)

"Etnografia d'una exhumació: Abrir las fosas del franquismo" (Isabel Gadea y Pepa García)

Seminario Buchenwald: "Imre Kertész y la reescritura de la memoria de Buchenwald"
(Marisa Siguán)

"JORGE SEMPRÚN EN BUCHENWALD, UN TESTIMONIO CIRCUNSCRITO DE PLURAL SIGNIFICADO"
(Joan B. Llinares)

"IT HAPPENED AT DIEBENWALD" - DIE REPRÄSENTATION VON RAUM IN COMIC ÜBER NS-KONZENTRATIONSLAGER"
(Dennis Bock)

"DER ERINNERTE ORT. ZUR BEZIEHUNG ZWISCHEN ARCHITEKTUR UND GEDÄCHTNIS AM BEISPIEL DER KZ-GEDENKSTÄTTE"
(Alexandra Klei)

“La ESMA en la imaginación cultural”
(Teresa Basile)

“Villa Grimaldi: Evolución del imaginario de la violencia de Estado entre 1987 y 2011”
(Milena Grass)

“Mirando hacia el abismo: representación, participación y presencia de perpetradores en Villa Grimaldi”
(Cath Collins)

“A short history of Khmer Rouge, S-21 and Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum”
(Nisay Hang)

“S-21 DOCUMENTATION AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF TUOL SLENG GENOCIDE MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE IN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KAMPUCHEA”
(Pheaktra Song)

“VANN NATH, THE PAINTING OF TERROR IN S-21”
(Soko Phay)

Seminario Camboya: “Same Same, but very different: Never Again!”
(Barbara Thimm)

Seminario Camboya: “Time of Archive: The Seven Lives of the Vietnamese Footage of S-21 in Representing the Cambodian Genocide”
(Vicente Sánchez Biosca)

Seminario El Valle: “El Valle de los Caídos como sinécdoque de la dictadura: Una aproximación desde el enfoque de las culturas políticas”,
(Zira Box)

Seminario El Valle: “El Valle de los Caídos, un contenedor de historia... ¿inmutable?”
(Queralt Solé)

Seminario El Valle: "EL VALLE DE LOS CAÍDOS EN LA PROPAGANDA OFICIAL FRANQUISTA. NO-DO: DE LA CRÓNICA A LA DECADENCIA DE UN MITO"
(Rafael Rodríguez Tranche)

Seminario El Valle: “Do you remember Franco?”
(Clemente Bernad)

Conferencia de Clausura: “En torno a La muerte en los ojos. Qué perpetran las imágenes de perpetrador”
(Vicente Sánchez Biosca)

Inauguración del congreso + "ECOLOGIES OF VIOLENCE: REVISITING (MI)LIEUX DE M MOIREAFTER THE ENVIRONMENTAL TURN"
(Susanne Knittel)

"PERSÖNLICH SEHR GUT". EPIFANÍAS FOTOGRÁFICAS DEL MAL EN BUCHENWALD Y EN SOBIBOR"
(Anacleto Ferrer)

"LUGARES DE DICTADOR EN LA EUROPA DEL SIGLO XX: PERPETRADORES O HÉROES?"
(Xosé M. Núñez Seixas)

"Etnografia d'una exhumació: Abrir las fosas del franquismo" (Isabel Gadea y Pepa García)

Seminario Buchenwald: "Imre Kertész y la reescritura de la memoria de Buchenwald"
(Marisa Siguán)

"JORGE SEMPRÚN EN BUCHENWALD, UN TESTIMONIO CIRCUNSCRITO DE PLURAL SIGNIFICADO"
(Joan B. Llinares)

"IT HAPPENED AT DIEBENWALD" - DIE REPRÄSENTATION VON RAUM IN COMIC ÜBER NS-KONZENTRATIONSLAGER"
(Dennis Bock)

"DER ERINNERTE ORT. ZUR BEZIEHUNG ZWISCHEN ARCHITEKTUR UND GEDÄCHTNIS AM BEISPIEL DER KZ-GEDENKSTÄTTE"
(Alexandra Klei)

“La ESMA en la imaginación cultural”
(Teresa Basile)

“Villa Grimaldi: Evolución del imaginario de la violencia de Estado entre 1987 y 2011”
(Milena Grass)

“Mirando hacia el abismo: representación, participación y presencia de perpetradores en Villa Grimaldi”
(Cath Collins)

“A short history of Khmer Rouge, S-21 and Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum”
(Nisay Hang)

“S-21 DOCUMENTATION AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF TUOL SLENG GENOCIDE MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE IN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KAMPUCHEA”
(Pheaktra Song)

“VANN NATH, THE PAINTING OF TERROR IN S-21”
(Soko Phay)

Seminario Camboya: “Same Same, but very different: Never Again!”
(Barbara Thimm)

Seminario Camboya: “Time of Archive: The Seven Lives of the Vietnamese Footage of S-21 in Representing the Cambodian Genocide”
(Vicente Sánchez Biosca)

Seminario El Valle: “El Valle de los Caídos como sinécdoque de la dictadura: Una aproximación desde el enfoque de las culturas políticas”
(Zira Box)

Seminario El Valle: “El Valle de los Caídos, un contenedor de historia... ¿inmutable?”
(Queralt Solé)

Seminario El Valle: "EL VALLE DE LOS CAÍDOS EN LA PROPAGANDA OFICIAL FRANQUISTA. NO-DO: DE LA CRÓNICA A LA DECADENCIA DE UN MITO"
(Rafael Rodríguez Tranche)

Seminario El Valle: “Do you remember Franco?”
(Clemente Bernad)

Conferencia de Clausura: “En torno a La muerte en los ojos. Qué perpetran las imágenes de perpetrador”
(Vicente Sánchez Biosca)

PARTICIPANTS

Susanne Knittel

Utrecht University

Anacleto Ferrer

Universitat de València

Xose M. Núñez Seixas

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Pamela Colombo

Université Laval

Isabel Gadea

Universitat de València

Pepa García

Universitat de València

Marisa Siguan

Universitat de Barcelona

Joan B. Llinares

Universitat de València

Dennis Bock

Universität Hamburg

Alexandra Klei

Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden

Teresa Basile

Universidad Nacional de la Plata

Eduardo Morettin

Universidade de Sao Paulo

Cath Collins

University of Ulster, North Ireland/ Universidad Diego Portales

Milena Grass

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Nisay Hang

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Pheaktra Song

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Soko Phay

Université Paris 8

Barbara Thimm

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

Vicente Sánchez-Biosca

Universitat de València

Helen Jarvis

Cambodian Genocide Data Base

Daniel Feierstein

Centro de Estudios sobre Genocidio de UNTREF

Zira Box

Universitat de València

Queralt Solé

Universitat de Barcelona

Rafael Rodríguez Tranche

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Clemente Bernad

Fotógrafo

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Helen Jarvis

Cambodian Genocide Data Base

Manuel Maldonado

Universidad de Sevilla

Teresa Basile

Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina

Marisa Siguan

Universitat de Barcelona

Milena Grass

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Irene Cárcel

Universitat de València

Marcos Centeno

Universitat de València

Juanjo Monsell

Universitat de València

Maria Morant

Universitat de València

Violeta Ros

Universitat de València

Lurdes Valls

Universitat de València

Ana González Casero

Universidad Complutense

Coordination

Ana R. CAlero Valera

Universitat de València

Jaume Peris Blanes

Universitat de València

Research Project

«De espacios de perpetración a lugares de memoria. Formas de representación»

PROMETEO/2020/059 (IP: Vicente Sánchez Biosca).

COLLABORATING ENTITIES

UV_Filologia_Departamento_Ingl_Alem

Universitat de valència
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya

UV_Filologia_Departamento_Esp

Universitat de valència
Departament de Filologia Espanyola

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