{"id":3453,"date":"2024-07-01T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erim.ief.hr\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2024-09-25T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T08:11:29","slug":"cfp-tracemaking-border-deaths-between-erasure-and-co-memoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erim.ief.hr\/en\/predavanja-i-tribine\/cfp-tracemaking-border-deaths-between-erasure-and-co-memoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Tracemaking Border Deaths between Erasure and Co-Memoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

COST Action TRACTS <\/a>SEMINAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracemaking Border Deaths between Erasure and Co-Memoration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE RESEARCH, Zagreb, Croatia <\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programme<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Book of abstracts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Venue: Library of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Researc<\/a>h, 5th floor, \u0160ubi\u0107eva 42, Zagreb – Where we are?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on the questions about the relationship between violence and traces on one hand, and affects, knowledge, art, and social justice on the other, this seminar focuses on tracemaking, border deaths and co-memoration. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, practices, and experiences, as well as to provide a space for reflection on alternative imaginaries and possible future direct actions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Searching for traces of deceased and disappeared people at borders is essential for clarifying circumstances, establishing responsibilities, or even determining the identities of the deceased. It, therefore, has and should have a privileged position in the understanding of border deaths and struggles related to them. However, searching for traces also implies making traces, since traces are not simply found, but are outcomes of analytical processes that interpret specific marks as traces of something or somebody missing. From that perspective, even an absence of a trace can be a trace: a trace of a non-event but also of an erasure. Finally, searching for traces related to border deaths and disappearances is usually followed by the production of new traces and practices, such as taking care of a burial site or repatriation, documentation, making memorial objects and sites, protesting, reconstructing, narrating, visualizing, mapping, reporting, list making etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a critical and historical perspective \u2013 focusing on Europe \u2013 border deaths, or as they are also called, migrant deaths and deaths in migration, are seen as an integral element of contemporary bordering practices based on racialized forms of violence accompanied by the advancement of technological tools. This imposes various questions and contradictions in the struggle to identify, address and challenge present and past violence and deaths related to the European border regime. Diverse social agents engaging with different experiences, histories, methods, and practices in this struggle have produced a significant body of knowledge related to tracemaking and co-memorating, which we wish to acknowledge and discuss through this seminar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the concept of tracemaking, we aim to grasp both the material (trace) and epistemological (making) aspects of the production of traces. We want to ask how and which traces of people deceased at borders are made by families, friends, local communities, civil groups, state services, researchers, journalists, activists, artists, and others. Furthermore, we would like to ask when and how tracemaking is related to those who deceased and disappeared at the borders framed within broader calls for social justice and transformation or, in the opposite direction, how it contributes to sustaining established exclusionary frameworks, hierarchies and injustices. Finally, we would like to ask how new forms of co-memoration \u2013 with and through tracemaking \u2013 help to address active engagement through multivocality and counter-memory, as well as \u201ccritical imagination and strategic contemplation and rhetorical feminist tactics, including resistance to hegemonic narratives, re-centering of dialogue over monologue, and reaffirming the value of experience and emotion\u201d (Nancy Small 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This two-day seminar aims to explore abundant tracemaking practices related to border deaths, as well as to expand current discussions about co-memoration, by addressing some of the following questions and beyond:<\/p>\n\n\n\n