In a French arthouse film an Algerian man draws out a large kitchen knife and cuts his own
throat. In a short Sri Lankan art video the goddess of destruction, Kali, and a woman soldier …

Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a
focus on feelings as cultural actors. It charts a series of memory sites that range from …

This article argues that the theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio constructs a meta-affective
practice of spectatorship that engages with an ethics and politics of contemporary cultural …

In order to be recognized as refugees, asylum seekers everywhere have to go through a
“refugee determination process.” In Australia, they also have to go through a “screening …

Witnessing, as it is currently conceived in theatre and performance studies, is a mode of
“active” and/or “ethical” spectatorship. However, such definitions neglect the insights of …

In the centre of the Memory Void constructed in an angular cavity of the Jewish Museum in
Berlin is the installation Shalechet (Fallen Leaves). In it, sculptor Menashe Kadishman …

The intergenerational legacies of conflict create a context of partiality for those children who
inherit the trauma of their parents. Taking the concept of the 'hinge generation'(Hoffman,) …

The nascent field of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift
from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, from 'what we know'to …

In an era characterised by impacts of cuts and austerity in the UK, this study is positioned at
the interface between two socio-cultural institutions against which societies are judged: the …