Round Tables > Political Studies

MEMORIES AND POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS

Friday, September 24th, 2:45pm-4:45pm

Centre de Colloques, Small Auditorium

Organization : Diana Burgos-Vigna (CRIIA – Université Paris Nanterre), Julien Zarifian (AGORA – Cergy Paris Université, membre junior de l’IUF)

Speakers : Maud Chirio (Université Gustave Eiffel), Thomas Grillot (Mondes Américains – EHESS), Ary Gordien (LARCA – Université de Paris), Serge Jaumain (AmericaS - Université Libre de Bruxelles), Julie Lavielle (Casa de Velasquez)

Presentation : This round table deals with the relations between politics and memory in the nations of the Americas and aims in particular at studying the current resonances of the dark pages of history. It will specially emphasize the effects of processes like colonization, destruction or weakening of indigenous peoples, slavery, old or more recent racial discriminations, and of their (non)-memorialization / patrimonialization, on the political life of the concerned nations. Contributions will also be able to deal with the issues linked to memorial management of more punctual discriminatory episodes or more targeted periods of mass violence, like for example disappearances and other forms of repression during the “years of lead” in the Southern Cone or the internment of the Japanese Americans in the United States during the Second World War. This analysis can be done at the national policies level but also at the local level, especially when they target victim groups and the territories where they lived or are still living. It can also focus on the role of memorial thematic in political mobilizations and other forms of collective expression used by these groups, to come out of invisibilization or to defend their rights.