Am Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien in Marburg findet am 14. Februar 2017 ein Vortrag zum Thema ‚Wastelands in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Production‚ statt. Referierende ist Anne-Marie McManus (Washington University in St. Louis). Der Vortragsraum ist Raum 00A09.
Informationen zum Vortrag:
As Syria approaches its sixth year of conflict, world audiences have become inured to the images of devastation and ruin that continue to pour out of this wartorn country.
The lecture departs from the traditional framing of this issue as „compassion fatigue,“ drawing instead on recent anthropological debates over what historian Ann Laura Stoler dubs ruination: the state of living on amid ruin, as well as the human and non-human processes that create and maintain it.
Drawing on literature, the visual arts, and film, this talk argues that Syrian cultural actors are critically engaged in a search to represent the endurance of life in war’s wasteland — on terms that neither reduce Syria to a barren wasteland robbed of life, nor a theater for cheerful human interest stories. As such, Syrian cultural production today has implications not only for tracing the genealogy of creativity that emerged in the 2011 uprising, but also for challenging the suppositions of core debates in the contemporary humanities.
You can find more information on our speaker and her work here:https://pages.wustl.edu/mcmanus
This talk is part of the activities of the Turning Points Research Group (DFG, Leibniz).