I'm a Roman cultural historian with interests in identity, memory, authority, and violence.
The conference aims to explore issues relating to memory, victimhood and violence.
My primary interests lie in Roman cultural history, specifically questions of identity (including gender), memory, authority, and violence.
The studio audience would gasp when he minced onstage and began speaking in his little squeak to Johnny Carson; but it would soon subside into respectful attention, even enthrallment, when he started talking seriously about memory and writing and violence.
(The cause — without giving away too much — is a repressed memory of sexual assault and violence from when she was a child).
Please join the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability for their annual conference, The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past.
And throughout 2014, children have been affected as never before in recent memory by violence and extreme hatred, with some 230 million children living in countries affected by conflict.
Many have bitter memories of communal riots and violence, from the 2002 killings in Gujarat all the way back to the bloodletting that accompanied the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
The vast majority come from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and arrive in the country saddled with trauma from ongoing conflicts and wars, memories of violence and death.
