Beyond narrative, bodies and landscapes remember, convey truth, resist and reclaim. This class will examine the manifest ways memory and witnessing is emplaced within social worlds, the body and landscapes. It will also address the politics of constructing memory and the practical challenges of remembering.

Guest Facilitator: Dr. Pilar, Riaño Alcalá, Historical Memory Group of Colombia

a. Pilar Riaño Alcalá and María Victoria Uribe. “Constructing Memory amidst War: The Historical Memory Group of Colombia.” International Journal of Transitional Justice (2016).
b. Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar. “Emplaced witnessing: Commemorative practices among the Wayuu in the Upper Guajira.” Memory Studies (2014).
c. Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar, and Erin Baines. “The archive in the witness: Documentation in settings of chronic insecurity.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 5.3 (2011): 412-433.
d. Theo Hollander and Bani Gill. “Every Day the War Continues in My Body: Examining the Marked Body in Post-conflict Northern Uganda.” International Journal of Transitional Justice (2014).

Recommended:
e. Basta Ya! Colombia: Memories of War and Dignity
Kleinman, Arthur, and Joan Kleinman.”How bodies remember: Social memory and bodily experience of criticism, resistance, and de-legitimation following China’s cultural revolution.” New Literary History (1994): 707-723.
f. Swati Parashar. “What wars and ‘war bodies’ know about international relations.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 26.4 (2013): 615-630.

Facilitation: (Ketty and Masa)

Presentation:
a. Guzan (Kiran)