One day Symposium, 'Mapping and Framing Cultural Spaces Under a Dictatorship', Organised by Francesca Billiani
| Dates: | 5 December 2008 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford). As part of the Stanford-Manchester link, this interdisciplinary symposium brings together historians, cultural historians, cultural theorists, literary and visual art scholars, working on the multifaceted and polymorphous relationship between culture and dictatorships during the twentieth century. In this symposium, we would like to pursue two main lines of enquiry. The first one will focus on how culture, understood in the broadest possible sense, creates public and private spaces of resistance and acceptance within repressive political systems. The second one will investigate how culture, and its agents, produce specific meta-languages, which would enable them to enter into often productive dialogue with a wide range of ideologically hostile institutions, such as censorial boards. By looking at specific case studies, we hope not only to assess the relationship between cultural production, aesthetic creativity and political and ideological oppression, but also to develop an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary theoretical framework for the study of the coming into being of alternative, eccentric and marginal cultural manifestations and permutations.
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