Memory

Centred on the image as a site of reflection and meaning, the seminar “The Languages of Memory: Memory and Image”, led by visual artist and lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts Mar Caldas, together with BBC filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick, explored how a broad spectrum of creative practices can shape, reconstruct, and transmit both personal and collective memory. The event took place on Thursday, October 30, in the Salón de Graos of the Faculty of Philology and Translation, and was organized and moderated by Professor Teresa Caneda (University of Vigo), with the support of the Instituto de Investigación Lingua (iLingua) and the Department of English, French and German.

The research project “Inconvenient Truths" has been granted funding (39.930 €) by Spain's Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (code FFI2017-84619-P).   The Project's Principal Investigator is Teresa Caneda Cabrera  (P.I. of NETEC), and José Carregal Romero is one of the team members. The project's academic activities and results will feature prominently in the NETEC webpage through the new tab  INTRUTHS 

• Prof. Loredana Polezzi, Cardiff University
• November 30 2017 (Thursday), 11 am.
• Salón de Actos FFT   > con interpretación simultánea 
• Organized by: Dpto. FIFA & iDAES

This lecture is funded by the Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa, Francesa e Alemá and the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Advanced English Studies (iDAES) of the University of Vigo and is directly linked to the seminar (curso de formación) “The Representation of Conflicts: An Introduction to Trauma and Memory in Texts”, co-taught by Teresa Caneda and Martín Urdiales. This seminar approaches the representation of traumatic events such as the Irish Famine and the Holocaust which implied forms of enforced mobility and have become associated with cultural memory/ies. The seminar will focus on texts  which deal with the representation of scenarios of conflict (dislocation, violent assimilation) and  where the relationships among languages and speakers are marked by hierarchies of power.