Chair: Marianne Hirsch and Diana Taylor
Focusing on survivor testimony and sites of memory from Argentina’s ‘Dirty War,’ this working group asks if specific instances of trauma/memory/and performance have their own unique structure and idiom, or if we can think about individual and collective trauma through a translocal, cosmopolitan lens. Topics include: the performance of state power and state sponsored terror; the individual and collective nature of trauma; the study of embodied practices such as testimony and witnessing; the construction of archives of testimony; testimony, its use in literature, museums, and pedagogy, its the dramatizations by others, its archivization; the social role of sites of memory (ESMA, Club Atlético, etc.); theaters of justice such as trials, tribunals and truth commissions; performances of protest and resistance.