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SUMMARY:Queer and trans testimonies: from the Holocaust to 2023 - Speaker 
 to be confirmed
DTSTART:20231122T090000Z
DTEND:20231122T180000Z
UID:TALK208276@talks.cam.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust is not immune to canonisation\, as scholars such
  as Dominick LaCapra have pointed out\, and some testimonies are regularly
  excluded from the official conversation. Artistic and literary practices 
 attest to processes of exclusion and violence and give voice to those that
  experience them. In this spirit\, filmmakers Matteo Botrugno and Daniele 
 Coluccini have strived in their latest work\, C’è un soffio di vita sol
 tanto\, to amplify the voice of Lucy Salani\, a trans woman who survived D
 achau\; in France\, photographer and filmmaker Hervé Joseph Lebrun has wo
 rked with Pierre Seel to interrogate processes of invisibilisation and vis
 ibilisation. In these ways\, these artists set up forms of subversion and 
 resistance to normative canonised narratives. The event seeks to bring to 
 the fore such marginalised and non-conforming voices\, from those of Holoc
 aust survivors to that of contemporary artists.\n\nHomophobia\, queerphobi
 a and transphobia did not end with the Second World War. Their spatio-temp
 oral extension to the present and across national boundaries necessitates 
 that we work across disciplinary boundaries and without the confines of ac
 ademia.\n\nThe two-day event will begin with the UK premiere of Botrugno a
 nd Coluccini’s critically acclaimed C’è un soffio di vita soltanto\, 
 which tells the story of Dachau survivor Lucy Salani.\n\nOn the second day
 \, a panel of academics from different fields will explore questions of te
 stimony\; a roundtable will then bring together discussants from inside an
 d outside academia\, for a conversation that crosses national borders.\n\n
 This event brings together artists and academics with the aim of discussin
 g queer and trans testimonies from the Holocaust to the present.\n
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Foundess Court\, Pembroke College
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