Reenacting Genocide
Vanessa Agnew
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
1:30 PM, Friday, November 13, Multi-Media Lab, Discovery Centre, MacOdrum Library
Dr Agnew will be speaking about teaching and research as re-enactment, focusing on her recent work on the Armenian Genocide.
Biography
Dr Vanessa Agnew teaches at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. She has authored Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds and co-edited, with Jonathan Lamb, Settler and Creole Re-Enactment. In 2004 she edited a special issue of the journal Criticism (46.3) on the topic of re-enactment. Her introduction to that volume, ‘What is Re-Enactment’, along with her 2007 article in Re-Thinking History (11.3), ‘History’s Affective Turn: Historical Reenactment and it’s Work in the Present’, have become essential reading for anyone interested in public history, memory, and reenactment.