III International Seminar on the Politics of Memory
“Remembering Walter Benjamin: Justice, History and Truth. Writings on Memory”
Buenos Aires, October 25, 26 and 27, 2010
First Circular
Co-organizers: Argentina’s National Library, French-Argentine Center of Postgraduate Studies-University of Buenos Aires, DAAD (Deustcher Akademischer Austausch Dienst-University of Buenos Aires), School of Social Sciences-University of Buenos Aires, School of Philosophy and Literature-University of Buenos Aires, University of Paris VIII.
Date: October 25, 26 and 27, 2010.
Location: Haroldo Conti Cultural Center for Memory (Place for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights – former ESMA).
While vainly seeking refuge in a continent ravaged by war and racial hatred, Walter Benjamin foresaw like no other the extent of the catastrophe. Noting how cultural facts and barbaric facts were often confused, his “On the Concept of History” would turn out to be prophetic of the Holocaust that was perpetrated and suffered by the most developed countries on earth. A thinker about bohemia and exile, equally drawn to revolution and aesthetic vanguardism, who felt uncomfortable everywhere, today his work is being increasingly visited by those who, discarding old certainties, search for a new horizon of justice and find their inspiration in Benjamin.
To remember Benjamin at one of the most notorious torture and extermination centers set up by the Argentine dictatorship, in which 5000 people were “disappeared”, is to admit how fruitful his thought can be for our work on memory. In opposition to those who claim oblivion and deny justice, we continue, like Benjamin, searching our history for that spark of hope, and acknowledging our debt to a past that still awaits redemption.
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Buenos Aires, October 2009
This is a call for proposals for panel topics for the III International Seminar on the Politics of Memory “Remembering Walter Benjamin: Justice, History and Truth. Writings on Memory”. Proposals must be submitted by two coordinators, and include a title for the panel, a brief explanation of the reason for the panel and an abbreviated CV. The proposals must be sent to: seminariobenjamin@gmail.com, Subject: “Walter Benjamin Seminar”.
Date of the Seminar: October 25, 26 and 27, 2010.
Deadline for submitting proposals: December 11, 2009.
Approval of panels: December 20, 2009.
Presentation of paper abstracts: deadline March 15, 2010.
Presentation of papers: deadline May 15, 2010.
Approval of papers: deadline June 15, 2010.
Some guests who have confirmed their attendance:
Michael Löwy
Susan Buck-Morss
Willi Bolle
Lisa Block de Behar
Winfried Menninghaus
Planning Process for the Seminar:
This circular calling for proposals for panel topics is being sent out.
These proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Council.
Coordinators of the panels will receive the paper abstracts and, upon approval, will notify the panelists and send the abstracts to the Organizing Council.
Coordinators of the panels will evaluate the papers for their panels and send them to the Organizing Council.
Organizing Council: Bernhard Chappuzeau (DAAD-Deustcher Akademischer Austausch Dienst-University of Buenos Aires), Eduardo Jozami (Haroldo Conti Cultural Center for Memory), Alejandro Kaufman and Marcelo Burello (School of Social Sciences-University of Buenos Aires), María Pía López (Argentina’s National Library), Jacques Poloni-Simard (French-Argentine Center of Postgraduate Studies-University of Buenos Aires), Miguel Vedda (School of Philosophy and Literature-University of Buenos Aires), Patrice Vermeren (University of Paris VIII).
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