{"id":114385,"date":"2020-12-04T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/event\/forbidden-memory-and-rediscovered-images-violence-erasure-and-the-cultural-revolution-in-tibet\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T20:27:00","slug":"forbidden-memory-and-rediscovered-images-violence-erasure-and-the-cultural-revolution-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/event\/forbidden-memory-and-rediscovered-images-violence-erasure-and-the-cultural-revolution-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbidden Memory and Rediscovered Images: Violence, Erasure, and the Cultural Revolution in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, 17 December, 14:00-15:30 (Copenhagen time\/CET)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the mid-1960s, a decade-long wave of political violence swept across Tibet. Red Guards burnt books, sacked temples, struggled against teachers and lamas, and outlawed cultural traditions while Communist leaders held mass rallies and military parades, replaced schools with universal political education, and organised the entire rural population into communes.<\/p>\n

Similar drives took place throughout China, with effects that rippled across Asia and the world. But for 40 years not a single image emerged showing the violence in Tibet, and discussion of that epoch is still banned there. In 2006, however, the leading Tibetan poet and essayist Tsering Woeser published a book in Taiwan containing three hundred photographs taken by her father, discovered only after his death. These, the only visual record of the violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, have now been published in an English edition,\u00a0Forbidden Memory<\/em><\/a>, together with Woeser\u2019s study of the photographs and her interviews with survivors.<\/p>\n

This joint ADI-Inalco event brings together historians and social scientists studying modern China, Xinjiang, Japan, India and Tibet with the author and editor of\u00a0Forbidden Memory<\/em>\u00a0to discuss political violence, photography and historical erasure by successor states. Why do such traumatic events get forgotten? Can they be remembered without images? Is violence in a minority area, even when perpetrated by members of that minority, morally different from that when carried out by a dominant ethnic group? Does remembering violence help deter its repetition?<\/p>\n

Moderator and discussant:<\/strong>
\nRavinder Kaur, Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, historian of modern India.<\/p>\n

Video message:<\/strong>
\nTsering Woeser, poet and essayist based in Beijing, author of\u00a0Forbidden Memory.<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/strong>
\nFran\u00e7oise Robin, Professor of Tibetan language and literature at Inalco (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations), Paris, scholar of contemporary Tibetan literature and film.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Veg,\u00a0Professor of intellectual history of 20th century China at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), Paris, expert on Chinese intellectual history and politics.<\/p>\n

Rune Steenberg, Researcher at the Sinophone Borderlands project, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, social anthropologist focusing on Uyghur society and culture.<\/p>\n

Michael Lucken, Professor of History, Art and History of Art of Japan at Inalco, and leader of Inalco project on mass violence and trauma in East Asia.<\/p>\n

Robert Barnett, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, London, and former Director of Tibetan Studies at Columbia, writer on modern Tibetan history and politics.<\/p>\n

The book:\u00a0Forbidden Memory: Tibet in the Cultural Revolution<\/em>. By Tsering Woeser, with photos by Tsering Dorje. Translator: Susan T. Chen.
\nEdited and introduced by Robert Barnett. University of Nebraska Press, 2020<\/p>\n

Organizers:\u00a0IFRAE,\u00a0Inalco\u00a0(Paris) and\u00a0Asian Dynamics Initiative,\u00a0University of Copenhagen<\/p>\n

https:\/\/asiandynamics.ku.dk\/english\/activities\/calendar\/forbidden-memory\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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