Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity

Conference.

Presentations

09:00 Documenting Destruction: Patterns of Perpetration in Documentaries on Genocide – Julian Koch, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
09:30 Remediation of Operational Images from the Ukraine War – Anna Leander, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland; Olivier Zuchuat, Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland
10:00 Gukurahundi documentary films and memory activism in post-atrocity Zimbabwe – Mphathisi Ndlovu, National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe
10:30 Coffee/Tea break
11:00 Exposing an ‘Emergency’: the Daily Worker headhunting controversy and its aftermath – Rio Creech-Nowagiel, University of Nottingham, UK
11:30 Tracing despair through visuals: my father’s suicide and genocide in West Papua – Lisbeth Frølunde, Roskilde University, Denmark
12:00 Landscape Abstractions: Violence and Aftermath in Jo Ractliffe's South African – Sam Bell, SOAS, University of London, UK
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Maoist Totalitarianism in Jiabiangou Elegy (夾邊溝祭事) – Jing Li, Stony Brook University, US
14:00 Fictionalizing Violence, Activating the Audience? Quo Vadis, Aida? as a Case Study of the (Failed) Relationship between Cinema and Atrocity Awareness – Tamara Kolarić, Dublin City University, Ireland; Petar Mitrić, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
14:30 Competing Narratives in National Memory: The 1964 Brazilian Coup D'État in Visual Media – Fernando Forattini, University of Chicago/Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, US/Brazil
15:00 Coffee/Tea break
15:30 Keynote: Piotr Cieplak, University of Sussex, UK
16:45 Documentary Screening: (Dis)Appear, 2023, directed by Piotr Cieplak