인류학과 BK21 교육연구단이 해외 석학 초청강연을 개최합니다.

키드론 교수는 최근 비서구의 탈제노사이드 사회에서 힘겨운 과거의 기억을 인권 및 세계적 준거에 따라 현대적으로 개념화하는 과정 속에서 서구 유럽식 기념 형태가 확산되었으며, 그러한 서구 유럽의 기념 형식은 특정 문화의 세계관 및 지역 정신이 과거를 구체화하는 방식과 조화롭지 않을 수 있음을 지적합니다. 본 강연에서 그는 전지구적 ‘기념’ 지형에서는 표면적으로 글로컬라이제이션의 혼종 산물을 나타내는 것처럼 보이는 캄보디아의 집단학살 공동 기념지에 주목하고, 민족지학적 연구와 인류학적 시각을 통해 번역 과정에서 잃어버린 지역 정신을 짚어냄으로써 문화 번역의 한계를 극복할 수 있음을 논의합니다. 관심 있는 많은 분들의 참여 바랍니다.

강연자: 캐롤 키드론 교수/ 하이파 대학교 인류학과 (Carol A. Kidron/ University of Haifa, Israel)

강연 일시: 6월 5일 수요일, 10:30-12:00

강연 장소: 서울대 사회과학관 교수대회의실 [16동 312호]

강연 문의: anthrobk21plus@snu.ac.kr

*본 강연은 영어로 진행됩니다.

Glocal Spaces Lost in Translation:

an Ethnographic Reading of Communal Genocide Monuments in Cambodia

<About the Lecture>

As part of the contemporary conceptualization of memorialization of difficult pasts as a human right and global imperative, recent decades have witnessed the circulation of Euro-western commemorative forms in non-Western post-genocide societies. Be it genocide museum exhibits or commemorative monuments, architects and museologists have attempted to syncretically weave local culturally particular symbolic motifs with Euro-Western aesthetic commemorative forms. The outcome appears at first glance to represent a hybrid product of glocalization in the global commemorative landscape, effectively translating particular local conceptions of loss, mourning and collective memory into a universally shared semiotics and mnemonic aesthetics. However, echoing the challenge of other forms of cultural translation, Euro-Western commemorative forms of representation may be incongruent with culturally particular worldviews and the way in which local ethos objectify the past.

The scholarship on genocide commemoration, primarily in the fields of culture studies or museology, has explored the crisis of representation, the re-presentation of absence or national hegemonic politics of memory. This lecture will suggest that in contrast, anthropological perspectives may isolate the limits of translation pointing to local ethos that may have been lost in translation. Moving beyond questions of design, ethnographic research may also evaluate local responses to commemorative sites in order to determine if and how these ‘traveling’ models of global of commemoration have been effectively grounded in the local cultural terrain. This lecture will present ethnographic data on communal sites of genocide in Cambodia. Moving off the beaten track, commemorative ‘stupas’ located in village Wats will be discussed as potentially incongruent hybrid cultural products of glocal memorialization.

<About the Guest Speaker>

Carol A. Kidron is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. Kidron has undertaken comparative ethnographic work with Holocaust descendants in Israel and children of Cambodian genocide survivors in Cambodia and Canada. She has focused on the interface between private and public Holocaust and Genocide memory work in Israel, Canada and Cambodia, aiming primarily to re-conceptualize trauma descendant lived memory of difficult pasts as silent intersubjective embodied and emotive presence. Kidron has examined ways in which universalizing epistemological frames (psychological illness construct of PTSD, Genocide Studies, Culture Studies (trauma theory) Human Rights and the more recent moral anthropology) discursively elide the private and familial experience of presence while facilitating the public appropriation and translation of private memory into either public niches of domesticated representation of lived memory or ‘dead’ forms of politicized absence. Beyond her interest in personal and collective Holocaust and Genocide commemoration, Kidron's more recent research examines the glocalization of discourses on justice and reconciliation, victimhood, and memory in post-conflict societies. Her present field work in Cambodia explores processes of localization and friction in local-global encounters and the multi-layered responses to hegemonically imposed memorialization, organic forms of genocide commemoration and atrocity tourism. Kidron’s publications include: "Surviving a Distant Past" (Ethos 2003), “Toward an Ethnography of Silence: The Lived Presence of the Past in the Everyday Life of Holocaust Trauma Survivors and Their Descendants in Israel” (Current Anthropology 2009), "Embracing the Lived Memory of Genocide" (American Ethnologist, 2010), “Alterity and the Particular Limits of Universalism: Comparing Jewish-Israeli Holocaust and Canadian-Cambodian Genocide Legacies” (Current Anthropology, 2012) and "Being There Together: Dark Family Tourism and the Emotive Experience of Co-presence in the Holocaust Past" (Annals of Tourism Research 2013).