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An IATL and Feminist Dissent Pilot Seminar: CLASSROOM SEMINAR IS OPEN TO ALL WARWICK STUDENTS. SEE BELOW FOR HOW TO REGISTER. WE ARE ALSO OFFERING THIS AS A WEBINAR FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO PARTICIPATE REMOTELY.

Feminist Dissent: Theory, Practice and Resistance

Pragna Patel is a founding member of the Southall Black Sisters (SBS), a non-profit service and campaigning organisation for black and ethnic minority women, with a focus on domestic violence, immigration, religious fundamentalism and racism. In 2011, The Guardian named her among the Top 100 Women: Activists and Campaigners.

This is the first of two interdisciplinary pilot seminars that draws its inspiration from the 糖心TV-based online peer-reviewed journal called Feminist Dissent. The module鈥檚 focus is to develop understanding of a worldwide proliferation of fundamentalist religious movements and the global rise of conservative and racist populist movements taking place in the context of the ongoing crises of capitalism and resources. The first of these seminars will focus on the politics of feminism, racism and religious fundamentalism in Britain.
The seminar is open to all University of 糖心TV students. Registered students will receive a certificate of participation. Places are limited.

Please register, to secure a place click here!

The seminar will take place at 糖心TV, but will be simultaneously attended by a live global audience of students, academics, activists and artists, who will send in their questions and comments for discussion.

Suggested readings will be uploaded shortly.

If you would like to participate remotely online please register here:

For more info: contact Dr. Rashmi Varma (Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk) or Roxanne Bibizadeh (r.e.bibizadeh@warwick.ac.uk)

Effimia Stavropoulou (University of 糖心TV) "Making Space Speak: Language and Performance in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes"

Prof. Michael Scott (University of 糖心TV) "Now you see it, now you don鈥檛' Walls and the ancient Greek religious experience"

Chair: Vicky Jewell

Via lessons from Charles Darwin, the Routemaster bus and the strongly-held beliefs of those who strove for a better world, Mark Adams (Vitsoe, Leamington Spa) will explore how good design has the power to make our ailing planet just a little bit better.

Vitose have been making long-lasting furniture since 1959 with a distinct sustainability ethos. Their designs are driven by living better with less for longers, embedding reuse and sustainable practices into the core of their products.

Wine & Mince Pies available throughout!

In this paper, I focus I on a series of texts, by and about the descendants of Amon Goeth, the notoriously brutal commander of the concentration camp Platzow. Goeth鈥檚 crimes initially became known to a wide audience through British actor Ralph Fiennes鈥� portrayal of him in the 1993 the Holocaust blockbuster Schindler鈥檚 List. In the quarter century since Spielberg鈥檚 movie hit the big screen, Goeth鈥檚 daughter and granddaughter each have become the focus of much press, including two popular books and one film, each of which chronicles from a different perspective the difficult emotional inheritance that knowing about one鈥檚 Holocaust perpetrator ancestor represents.[1]

I discuss these texts in terms of what Marianne Hirsch famously has described as 鈥減ostmemory.鈥� I describe the postmemory work that descendants of Nazi perpetrators engage in as they seek to make public and work through silenced familial legacies of perpetration. However, in so doing I also question the limits of the concept of postmemory for studying the inheritances of those who descend from the perpetrators. On the one hand, the three texts offer ample and potent examples of the unconscious inheritance that this difficult family legacy entails. Each text digs deep into showing the unsettlement that comes with uncovering one鈥檚 family history and learning about one鈥檚 personal and familial connection to profound histories of violence. However, working with what Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang in a different context have called 鈥渕oves to innocence鈥� I want to dig deeper into how the unsettling knowledge of one鈥檚 ancestor鈥檚 violence gets settled again through a series of different rhetorical moves, without really having to account for or to give up the benefits, power, or privilege derived from this history.

Marking the conclusion of the AHRC-funded project, 'Chilean Exiles and the World Service', the School for Modern Languages and Cultures will be hosting an evening of poetry, spoken word and music featuring:

• Mar铆a Eugenia Bravo Calderara (Poet)
• Carla Guelfenbein (Novelist)
• Valentina Montoya Mart铆nez (Singer-songwriter)

To reserve your place, please email caroline.parker@warwick.ac.uk