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Contemporary Trends in Global and International Studies Lecture Series -Erin Baines and Pilar Riaño-Alcalá – Traces
November 22, 2018 at 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
| Location: | 2017 Dunton Tower |
| Cost: | Free |
| Key Contact: | Julie St-Cyr, Global and International Studies |
| Contact Email: | bgins@carleton.ca |
We are pleased to announce our next guests in the Contemporary Trends in Global and International Studies Lecture Series. Please join us in welcoming Professors Erin Baines and Pilar Riaño-Alcalá , from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Abstract: We speak of traces as the affective imprints of the missing on the social fabric; the sense/feeling disappearance generates; an imprint that is imperceptible but compels. Traces are haunting, hopeful, and coextensive: imbrications of the absent and present. What does it mean to write of, and with, traces? Pilar reflects on exhumations of the victims of a massacre, of lives mourned and relationships restored through the identification of bones and ceremonial protocols of burial. Erin reflects on the reappearance of persons who went missing during the war in northern Uganda, and the violent fragments that bond them to one another, and to persons they have never before seen or met. In this talk, we take a pause from international investigations, trials, evidence and judgements to consider where traces lead us in the afterlives of war.
This is event is open to the public, faculty members and students. Further details for this event are in the attached poster.