{"id":8361,"date":"2023-05-04T10:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:45:42","slug":"the-weaponization-of-memory-in-times-of-political-ruptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/2023\/05\/04\/the-weaponization-of-memory-in-times-of-political-ruptures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Group at The New School for Social Research (NSSR)<\/strong> with Keynote Lecture by Robin Wagner-Pacifici, University Professor, NSSR: Weaponization through Domestication: Events and Non-events in our Short Term Memory<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Saturday,\u00a0May\u00a013,\u00a02023,\u00a010:00AM\u00a0to\u00a06:00PM
Wolff Conference Room
6 East 16th Street, New York, NY <\/h4>\n\n\n\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 \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\u2019s USA or Orban\u2019s 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\u2019s Brazil to Modi\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the full program and to register please access the conference page here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong> (The conference is FREE and open to the public – with RSVP.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presented by The Memory Studies Group<\/a> at The New School for Social Research<\/a> and the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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