Lecture: “A Genealogy of Amnesia in Europe”
at Genealogy of Amnesia Symposium, November 8-10, 2018 (mumok, Vienna/Austria)
This talk draws a map of imperial amnesia in The Netherlands and enlarge it with the ways that White Innocence operates in other Western European nations, and addresses different aspects of conviviality.
Gloria Wekker is a social and cultural anthropologist, with specializations in Gender Studies, Sexuality, African-American and Caribbean Studies. She was a professor in Gender Studies at the Faculty of the Humanities, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and since 2012 she is emerita.
Part 2: Gloria Wekker in conversation with Birgit Sauer
Birgit Sauer is a political scientist, with specializations in Governance and Gender, Gender Politics, Theories of the State and Institutions, and Politics and Emotions. She is Vice Head of the Doctoral Studies Programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. From 2014 to 2017 she was Chair of the Research Platform Gender and Agency at the University of Vienna.
Date: 08/11/2018
Place: mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Austria)
Filming: Valerija Zabret
Editing: Marina Gržinić, Valerija Zabret