by Gender Justice Memory | Jun 28, 2017 | Participants
Aesthetics, Affect and the Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal Funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship this project seeks to explore the configuration of the nation-state and the relation between art and politics through the evocation of senses by various affective...
by Jelke Boesten | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Jelke Boesten explores the continuing relevance of The Handmaid’s Tale and its relationship to gender and memory. Picture: Anna and Elena Balbusso I read Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale (1985) when I was pregnant. I do not recommend doing so; any anxieties of aliens...
by Siúan Póirtéir | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Siúan Póirtéir looks at how memory is stored and shared through women’s bodies in Imogen Butler-Cole’s Foreign Body When I attended the world premiere of Foreign Body during the WOW (Women of the World) Festival at the Southbank Centre in London, I was...
by Gender Justice Memory | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Phoebe Martin investigates poet Carmen Ollé’s relationship with feminism and activism in Peru Speaking to Carmen Ollé, she says that she “has never been an activist”. Yet her work is often seen as the beginning of feminist poetry in Peru. How then, can her...
by Gender Justice Memory | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog
Alexandra Hibbett reviews the play Manta y Vilca against the backdrop of the concurrent trials addressing rape during Peru’s armed conflict The play Manta y Vilca,[1] by the Trenzar Cultural Association,[2] ran in Lima from the 12th of April to the 7th of May...
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