International seminar on denialism, hate crimes and memory
- National Cinematheque (La Moneda Cultural Center, Plaza de la Ciudadanía 26, Santiago) and the América Room of the National Library (Av. Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 651, Santiago).
- March 13, 14 and 15.
- Registration at [email protected].
“Thinking about denialism and hate crimes from the perspective of memory and cultural heritage” is the title of the international seminar organized by the National Cultural Heritage Service, with the aim of addressing this phenomenon from the perspective of heritage and cultural processes. linked to memory.
This initiative, which is being held for the first time in Chile, will bring together specialists from Chile, Germany, France and the United Kingdom on March 13, 14 and 15 to provide a space for the exchange of ideas, artistic, territorial and community experiences, intended to think about and analyze this phenomenon from the most diverse perspectives.
This seminar will bring together the academic world, memory sites, communities, and artists who work in the field of human rights, as well as jurists and the general public, who will be able to review and revisit concepts, themes and experiences to strengthen the processes construction of collective memory.
The national director of the National Cultural Heritage Service (Serpat), Nélida Pozo, highlighted that “as the National Cultural Heritage Service it seems essential to address denialism as a cultural and heritage challenge and, in that sense, this international seminar promotes an approach from a transversal perspective: from the multiple aspects that it involves for memory sites and communities and public policy in a broad sense.”
The seminar will address the phenomenon of denialism in its entirety, from the vandalization of memory sites, grievances and hate actions, the stigmatization of localities or settlements related to human rights violations, to public approaches that deny or relativize ―before the whole of society― what happened in our country.
Likewise, it seeks to problematize this phenomenon from the perspective of heritage and cultural processes linked to memory, relying on experiences from other countries and local communities, to advance the development of public policies capable of addressing denialism from its complexity and necessary transversality and intersectoriality.
International guests
From Germany, Anne Thomas, international coordinator of the Stolpersteine Foundation, will be in charge of the opening presentation on Wednesday, March 13, while Leigh A. Payne, academic of sociology and specialist in Latin America, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, will be part of the Table III: Non-repetition and memory as a State policy, to be held that same day.
On Thursday, March 14, Bertrand Legendre, expert in digital culture and former director of the Laboratory of Cultural Industries and Artistic Creation (Labex ICCA) and the Laboratory of Information and Communication Sciences (LabSIC), of the Paris XIII University, France, will participate in Table IV: Memorial experiences: History, conflict and knowledge of coexistence.
On Friday, March 15, the artist and National Prize winner Cecilia Vicuña, based in New York, United States, will be part of Table VI: Building a culture of human rights: a transversal challenge.
The international guests will be joined by various national experts who will contribute with their analysis and reflection during the three days of this activity.
Program
On Wednesday, March 13, starting at 9:00 a.m. at the National Cinematheque, the inaugural greetings from the director of the National Cultural Heritage Service (Serpat), Nélida Pozo, will be offered; the director of the Goethe Institute, Verena Lehmkuhl; the Counselor for Cooperation and Cultural Action of the French Embassy and director of the French Institute of Chile, Patrick Flot; and the Minister of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (Mincap), Carolina Arredondo. Subsequently, the opening presentation will take place by Anne Thomas, international coordinator of the Stolpersteine Foundation, who will present “Stolpersteine as a memorial practice: The stumbling stones of the German artist Gunter Demnig.
At 10:45 a.m. in Table I: Thinking about denialism from the social sciences, 50 years after the coup d’état, Manuel Antonio Garretón, National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences, will participate; and Jorge Magasich, professor at the Institute of Higher Studies of Social Communication (IHECS), Belgium. Carolina Pérez Dattari, undersecretary of Cultural Heritage, will moderate.
At 12:05 the Collective Fanzine Workshop will begin by the HAMBRE editorial collective and then have a break.
The afternoon will open at 3:10 p.m. with Table II: Geopolitics, memory and otherness, with Sandra Piñeiro, head of Education and Audiences, Museum of Memory and Human Rights; Deín Portela, anthropologist at the Alberto Hurtado University; and Luis Campos, sociologist at the University of Chile and Rodrigo Karmy, philosopher at the University of Chile. This table will be moderated by Osvaldo Torres, advisor to the Undersecretary of Human Rights.
After a break, at 4:40 p.m., Table III: Non-repetition and memory as a State policy will be held, which will include Leigh A. Payne, sociology academic and specialist in Latin America, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Verónica Reyna, lawyer for the Social Aid Foundation of the Christian Churches (FASIC),. Nélida Pozo, director of the National Cultural Heritage Service (Serpat), will moderate.
This first day will close with Cantata memorial, performed by Mario Cárdenas, Carolina Gallardo, Gunter Monroy, Mauricio Arismendi and Judith Chávez. Melipulli Group, Puerto Montt.
The event on Thursday, March 14 will begin at 9:00 a.m. also at the National Cinema Library with the presentation of recreational and memorial mediation experiences “Characters with History” and “Memories at Play” by Angélica Navarrete and Javiera Díaz, president and in charge of Museum and Education, of the Museum and Memorial Site of Neltume, Chile. Roberto Manríquez, researcher at the National Archive, will moderate.
Table IV: Memorial experiences: History, conflict and knowledge of coexistence is scheduled at 10:10 a.m., composed by Bertrand Legendre, expert in digital culture and former director of the Cultural Industries and Artistic Creation Laboratory (Labex ICCA) and the Science Laboratory of information and communication (LabSIC), from the Paris XIII University, France; Maximo Corvalán, visual artist; Rodrigo del Villar and Silvana Griffero, president and general secretary of the Melinka-Puchuncaví Memorial Site, Chile. The moderation will be in charge of Rodrigo Aravena, Sites of Memory Unit National Cultural Heritage Service (Serpat).
At 11:30 a.m. “Textile archive: what the arpillera ‘says’” will be presented with Roberta Bacic, curator, Chile-Northern Ireland, while at 12:10 the Transfer and Visit to the Social Aid Foundation Archive of the Christian Churches (FASIC).
The afternoon session, to be held in the América Room of the National Library, will begin at 3:00 p.m. with the Second Fanzine Workshop session by the publishing collective HAMBRE and then at 4:40 p.m., Table V: Memory, territory and culture in which Miguel Lawner, National Prize for Architecture, and Nicolás del Valle, academic at the School of Journalism at the University of Santiago, will exhibit. Moderator: Rodrigo Aravena, Sites of Memory Unit National Cultural Heritage Service (Serpat). This date will end with the musical presentation by the singer and composer Trigal, Chile.
For the third and last day, Friday, March 15, a visit to the Poetic Arpilleras Exhibition is scheduled at 9:30 a.m., at the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA), where there will also be a greeting and words of welcome from museum director Varinia Brodsky, and then conversation with curator Roberta Bacic.
The next block will continue at 11:35 on Friday at the National Cinematheque with Table VI: Building a culture of human rights: a transversal challenge in which Xavier Altamirano, undersecretary of Human Rights will share; Cecilia Vicuña, artist, National Arts Award, Chile-United States; Carmen Hertz, lawyer and representative of the Republic; and Claudio Di Girolamo, artist and former coordinator of the Culture Division of the Ministry of Education (Mineduc). It will be moderated by Constanza Symmes, National Manager of the Sites of Memory Unit, National Cultural Heritage Service (Serpat).
The program will resume at 2:40 p.m. with Table VII: Learning and challenges: Memory, history and guarantees of non-repetition as pillars in the “production of the common.” Bruno Serrano, writer and poet, will dialogue there; Lieta Vivaldi, lawyer and advisor to the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH); Francia Jamett, national manager of the Culture, Memory and Human Rights Unit of the Undersecretary of Cultures and the Arts; and Mario Garcés, historian, University of Santiago de Chile. It will be moderated by: Xaviera Salgado, coordinator of the Memory and Human Rights Unit of the Historical Heritage Commission of the Technical Secretariat of the Council of National Monuments.
Table VIII will continue: The place of creation and restoration in the protection of memory with Claudia Pradenas, chief conservator of the National Center for Conservation and Restoration (CNCR); Felipe Ortiz, Mural Theater Collective artist; and Hugo Leonello, visual artist. Felipe Godoy from the Sites of Memory Unit of the National Cultural Heritage Service (Serpat) will moderate.
This international event will end with words at the closing and starting at 5:35 p.m. with the Screening of the German film “Kadish for a Friend” (Leo Khasin, 2011).