Connecting Memories keynote lecture: Dr Alicia Salomone

We are delighted to invite you to the Connecting Memories research initiative's third keynote lecture.

Join us for a talk by Dr Alicia Salomone of the University of Chile on ‘Transgenerational memories in artworks by children and grandchildren of victims of Pinochet’s dictatorship.’

The talk will be followed by a Q&A and wine reception.

The event is free of charge but booking is essential via Eventbrite as numbers are limited

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Connecting Memories is grateful to the Department of European Languages and Cultures and the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies (CCLAS) at the University of Edinburgh for their support with this event. 

Abstract:

After 45 years since the beginning of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, there is an emergence of new social agents within the memory realm, aiming to install their own discourses and struggles for memory. They are the children and grandchildren of the dictatorship’s victims, who were born and grew up after the coup d’état in 1973, or during the democratic transition inaugurated in 1990. As members of families that were opponents to the regime, they share common memories regarding that period.  The tracks of those difficult experiences can be followed through a number of cultural productions by contemporary Chilean artists, which are focused on the recovery of  individual and social memories. Furthermore, these memories also express the way in which the transference of social memories takes place among different generations, and how those memories are processed or mediated by artistic means.  In this frame, my research interest is to analyse the representation of transgenerational memories in pieces of artwork by taking into account their topics and ideological discourses, as well as the formal resources that are applied to the works and their poetics. Accordingly, the lecture’s aim is to present a general overview of this project, including a description of the corpus under study, the analytical perspectives that guide the research, and the provisional results achieved so far.

About the Connecting Memories research initiative

​​Connecting Memories is a collaborative interdisciplinary research initiative that sets out to open up a space for presently unconnected scholars working on memory to interact, to share their perspectives and reflections on what memory means in the context of their research. 

Founded by Paul Armstrong Leworthy (PhD candidate in Comparative Literature) and Dr Bárbara Fernández Melleda (Teaching Fellow in Spanish), the Connecting Memories group is based in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the University of Edinburgh.

The group's objective is to connect scholars working on memory, not only from across the School but also across the University, and from further afield too. 

Having launched in November 2017, the group's first keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Gustavo San Román (The University of St Andrews) on 'The Purple Land of Memory and Identity' in December 2017. Earlier this year, it welcomed Professor Richard Morris (University of Edinburgh) to give the second keynote lecture, and held its first annual symposium exploring interdisciplinary perspectives relating to memory.

Find out more on the Connecting Memories website

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