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The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)<\/b><\/h2>\n

Saturday, May 13, 2023<\/b>. The New School, NYC<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe Memory Studies Group at the New School, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, and the Democracy Seminar<\/p>\n

Hybrid Conference<\/p>\n

Recognizing the global shift to populist politics, the re-emergence of authoritarian regimes, and the ongoing war conducted by Russia against Ukraine, we are proposing a theme that spotlights the striking instrumentalization of memory and unmasks the logic of power relations. Examples of\u00a0 \u201cusing and abusing the past\u201d are visible in many cases: the unprecedented proliferation and cultivation of biopolitics during the COVID-19 pandemic; the national populist rhetoric against migrants in Trump’s USA or Orban’s Hungary; the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the full out war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus; the attack on democracy and the rise of illiberal regimes elsewhere from Bolsonaro’s Brazil to Modi’s India. All these and other profoundly unsettling political and social events illuminate \u201cthe power of memory\u201d and \u201cthe power over memory\u201d (M\u00fcller 2002) in our time of political and social upheavals and cataclysms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The conference panels will be structured according to the main theme that may contain sub-topics, including but not limited to the broad themes listed below:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n