We are excited to share below the programme for our upcoming second conference, Remembering/Imagining Terror in Europe, which will take place at the University of Birmingham from the 14th to the 16th of September 2022.
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Remembering/Imagining Terror in Europe
14-16 September 2022
University of Birmingham
Programme
14 September 2022
| 13:00-13:30 | Registration |
| 13:30-13:45 | Welcome and presentation of the project Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence |
| 13:45-15:00 | Keynote: The Future of the Dead: Avenues of Reconciliation in PostETA Euskadi Dr Annabel Martin, Dartmouth College, (USA) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:30 | Panel I (Chair: Prof Txetxu Aguado, Dartmouth College) Contested memories, autoethnography, and (critical) understandings of violent pasts: Memoria osoa and The Memorial Centre for the Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria-Gasteiz Dr Itoitz R. Jusue, Loughborough University, (UK) Terrorist trials under literary scrutiny: literature as counterterrorist response Prof Ingvild Folkvord, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (Norway) The Enemy is Within? Media Representations of the IRA Bombing Campaign in Britain Dr Roseanna Doughty, Independent scholar |
| 16:30-16:50 | Break |
| 16:50-17:40 | Panel II (Chair: Dr Carlos Yebra, University College London) Memory as ‘temporal loop’ in the War on Terror: Using the Past to Secure the Future Prof Charlotte Heath-Kelly & Dr Tom Pettinger, University of Warwick Self-understanding and governing of a generation shaped by constant terrorist threats June Tomiak, Activist, researcher & politician |
| 17:40-18:30 | Refreshments |
| 18:30-19:30 | Presentation: Suspect Objects, Suspect Subjects Faisal Hussain, Creative Producer and Artist Room: MUIR-420 (University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus) |
15 September 2022
| 09:00-10:15 | Keynote: European Cities Facing Terrorism: From Social Responses to Memory, and vice versa Dr Gérôme Truc, French National Centre for Scientific Research, (France) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:45 | Panel III (Chair: Dr Rita Floyd, University of Birmingham) Ethics of care in collecting spontaneous memorials after terrorist attacks Dr Kostas Arvanitis, University of Manchester, (UK) From one vertigo to another. Spatial experiments linked to the attack of 14 July 2016 (Nice) Dr Frédéric Vinot, Côte d’Azur University, (France) Shores of Grief: Intersections in remembrance and narrative Yordanka Dimcheva, University of Birmingham, (UK) |
| 11:45-12:05 | Break |
| 12:05-13:00 | Panel IV (Chair: Dr Ahmad Barakat, University of Birmingham) ‘Irruptions’ & the 22/3 Memorial’s more-than-humanness: Post-philosophical explorations (Virtual paper) Dr. Evelien Geerts, University of Birmingham, (UK) Hanau/Main – Topography of Immigration, Taboo, and Terror, and Lieu de Mémoire Dr Karin Yeșilada, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, (Germany) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-15:10 | Presentation (Virtual Session): Racist terror attack in Hanau: A counter-forensic investigation Dimitra Andritsou, Forensic Architecture |
| 15:10-15:40 | Coffee break |
| 15:40-17:00 | Presentation: Knowing, Feeling, and Imagining (Counter)terrorism: The Power of Art Dr Katharina Karcher, PI on the ERC project ‘Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence |
| 18:30 | Conference dinner |
16 September 2022
| 09:00-10:15 | Keynote (Virtual Session): ‘The emperor of all maladies, the king of terrors’: Epistemologies of ignorance and the Anthropo-not-seen of the ‘war against cancer’ Prof Nina Lykke, Linköping University, (Sweden) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-12:30 | Panel V (Chair: Dr Steve Hewitt, University of Birmingham) Embodying National (In)security: The Affective Politics of Localization Drives after Terrorism Dr Tom Pettinger, University of Warwick Analyzing European Political (Elite’s) Discourse on Terrorism and Implications for Counter Terrorism Strategy (Virtual Session) Maheen Farhat Raza, National Defence University (Islamabad, Pakistan) |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |