Lecture – Silencing Crises/Making Crises speak: Concluding Lecture/Performance

In the culminating session of this lecture series, academic chairs Lola Aubry and Dorte Jagetic Andersen will synthesise key insights from preceding talks while offering a nuanced critique of the notion of 'crisis' in the context of border studies. They will also unveil their forthcoming edited volume, "Silencing Crises/ Making Crises Speak," published by Berghahn Books. Adding to this conversation, scholars and artists Manju Sharma and Kolar Aparna will give a performative lecture “Partition, Colonial Trauma, and Temporalities of Stories.” During this performative lecture they attempt to unmute the entanglement of mental health and geopolitical “events” (such as India/Pakistan partition, COVID-19, Brexit) often silenced in dominant narratives of crisis. Sharma and Aparna perform stories in tandem in order to voice acts of healing from the lived condition of "never leaving" and "never arriving".
 

8th February 2024, 4.00-5.30pm
Online lecture (WebEx)
Lecture in English

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Dorte Jagetic Andersen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Border Region Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark. Her main research interest is in identity-formation in areas influenced by geopolitically drawn borders, and she has published widely on these issues in internationally recognized journals.

Kolar Aparna is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and European Narratives. Her work is focused on building situated knowledges as part of epistemic struggles around citizenship, movement, and borders. 

Lola Aubry is a post-doctoral researcher at the UniGR-Center for Border Studies in Luxembourg and has an interdisciplinary background in Political Sciences with a specialisation in ethnographic approaches to the political. Her current research interest revolves around feminist and more-than-human approaches to borders and bordering.

Manju Sharma (b. 1972 India) is a visual artist - artist writer. She was brought up in the UK, and now lives and works in The Netherlands. In her art-practice, Sharma is developing the concepts of ‘never leaving never arriving’ through the practice of colonial repair, and by examining ‘partition’ and its effect on mental-health.

The series is organised by the UniGR-Center for Border Studies (University of Luxembourg) and the Centre for Border Region Studies (University of Southern Denmark).
 

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