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Conflict and Community: Panel-led Workshop 2

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
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Mobilising the wide-ranging expertise of the speakers, this workshop explored questions of narrative, community and the special commemorative needs that arise in the wake of civil war and terrorism.
The second workshop in our Textual Commemoration strand took place on Saturday 11th November 2017. Panellists included: Rachel Seiffert (novelist); Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge (Professor of Modern Literature and History, University of East Anglia); Professor Harvey Whitehouse (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford; Fellow of CRIC); Professor Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford); Chair: Professor Helen Small (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford).

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Series
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
People
Rachel Seiffert
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Harvey Whitehouse
Helen Small
Elleke Boehmer
Keywords
literature
fiction
war
conflict
post war
commemoration
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 24/11/2017
Duration: 00:36:16

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