The Knowing Body: Memory, Grief, and the Practice of Listening

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In Latin America, initiatives to address violent pasts, authoritarian regimes, and civil wars through accords and peacebuilding have prompted calls from public historians to integrate historical analyses into transitional justice processes and public debate. Their objective is to intervene in a dominant narrative and establish solid routes into reparation. Through this interdisciplinary approach and a practice-as-research methodology, students will develop a performative project exploring memory, affect, and the history of grief and resilience in Latin American historical contexts. Students are given the option to select the specific socio-political violence, reconciliation, and restoration experience in the Latin American region with which they wish to engage and produce their final collective project. Rather than representing a case, students will perform an embodied translation of the complexity of memory making, grief, and listening in a specific case study.