Testimony: Memory, Trauma, Truth, Engagement

July 29, 2014 - July 31, 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford University

Oxford
United Kingdom

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This inaugural conference aims to examine the evolving genres and emerging contexts of testimonial production Testimony: Memory, Trauma, Truth, and Engagement. Broadly understood, testimony is an autobiographical narrative that presents evidence of first-person accounts of human rights abuses, violence and war, and life under conditions of social oppression. It is a genre that continues to thrive and evolve in the twenty-first century and one that encompasses a diversity of expression or representation - from oral
to written as well as nonfictional to fictional.

Testimonial related research includes topics such as: human rights and storytelling; trauma and memory; ethics, witnessing, and reconciliation; affect theory and empathy studies; critical pedagogy. Scholars continue to engage questions that address issues of generic
hybridity and metamorphosis; evolving uses, reception, and production of testimony; ethical and aesthetic contexts of testimony; and legal and juridical frameworks of testimony.

Since testimonial production implies a spectrum of disciplines, art forms, geographical and historical contexts as well as multi-lingual realities - it is through an interdisciplinary framework that allows for an ethical exploration of the impact and contributions of testimony and its legacies. It is through interdisciplinarity that a just and fair examination can be made of the impact and contributions of testimonial production within the cultures of redress and transnational justice processes for both the producers of testimony
and their audience.

In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between
these groups.

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Cristina Santos, Adriana Spahr, Tracy Crowe Morey:
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Rob Fisher:
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The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

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