Conflict Cluster Annual Symposium
The aim of this symposium is to enhance understanding of conflict and political violence in its various aspects, manifestations and historical and cultural constructions.
It offers an opportunity to hear about, and engage with, the work being produced by the University of Brighton’s Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence Research Cluster. The Cluster’s work spans several different disciplines within humanities and the social sciences, and the presentations on offer reflect precisely such inter-disciplinary approach to the topic of conflict and political violence. The presentations will be followed by discussions where the attendees will be able to personally engage with the topic(s) presented through asking questions to the presenters.
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr Vicky Margree – Sam Briggs Goes to War: Richard Marsh’s Comedy Clerk in the Trenches
Dr Eugene Michael – The Holocaust Metaphor In the Western Reactions to the Yugoslav Wars
Zeina Maasri – Draw me an AK-47: transnational imagination in the trenches of the Cold War
Tim Huzar – Black Lives Matter, and the Question of Nonviolence
James O’Leary – Contested Ground: Dealing with the legacy of conflict in Belfast’s Interfaces Areas
Joel Roberts – Abandoning the Freeway in The Crying of Lot 49
Joanna Kellond – HBO’s “In Treatment”: Mediating Trauma in the USA after 9/11
Ian Cantoni – Camp de Rivesaltes: The Topography of French Cultural Memory
Ken Clarry – Do you believe in ghosts? Derrida’s notions of life after death in Ken McMullen’s film Ghost Dance