{"id":731,"date":"2025-11-06T12:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/?p=731"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:59:13","slug":"follow-up-to-the-seminar-nature-remembers-war-trauma-and-environmental-postmemory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/2025\/11\/06\/follow-up-to-the-seminar-nature-remembers-war-trauma-and-environmental-postmemory\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up to the Seminar Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On October 24, we had the pleasure of hosting the seminar \u2018Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory\u2019 at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona. In a series of individual presentations, the members of the research group shared their latest research on the notion of \u201cenvironmental postmemory\u201d, exploring how ecosystems and non-human agents transmit and transform the legacies of conflict across generations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Promotional poster designed by Hugo Palomino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We were honoured to welcome Dr Mar\u00eda Gavi\u00f1a, from Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, who joined us in the seminar and engaged in lively discussion with our students and faculty. Following a warm reception by Dr Cristina Pividori, the first block of presentations was opened by the group\u2019s PhD students, Cristina Franco and Elvira Aguilera, who shared their analyses of Michael Cunningham\u2019s Day <\/em>(2024) and Hala Alyan\u2019s Salt Houses<\/em> (2017). They explored how nature functions as an active agent in remembering Palestinian displacement and representing the pandemic as a form of conflict within ecologically vulnerable settings. They were followed by Dr Christina Howes, whose intervention on Richard Flanagan\u2019s novel Question 7 <\/em>(2023) expanded on Rob Nixon\u2019s theory of slow violence and Stef Craps\u2019 articulation of postcolonial memory and planetary amnesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Sara Mart\u00edn centred her presentation on the concept of \u2018zero ecology\u2019 in relation to Cormac McCarthy\u2019s The Road<\/em> (2006), while Dr Nicholas Spengler focused his intervention on a new materialist approach to deal with the memory of war represented through the brains and bodies of human and nonhuman beings in Ocean Vuong\u2019s On Earth We\u2019re Briefly Gorgeous <\/em>(2019) and John Akomfrah\u2019s video installment Vertigo Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the coffee break, Dr Andrea Bellot and Dr Cristina Pividori presented their joint paper on Lynn Nottage\u2019s theatre play Ruined <\/em>(2008) and Eve Ensler’s In the Body<\/em> of the World<\/em> (2013), set against the backdrop of the wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Both argued that war marks both the female body and the land, transforming them into sites of traumatic memory and resistance through theatre as an enactor of postmemory. Next, Prof. Andrew Monnickendam travelled through the Vietnamese mausoleums and statues as sites of material and environmental memory. Finally, Dr David Owen presented his paper on the Scottish folk song \u201cJamie Foyers\u201d, which he also performed, arguing that performances are dynamic rituals of remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lyrics to the song “James Foyers”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On October 24, we had the pleasure of hosting the seminar \u2018Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory\u2019 at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona. In a series of individual presentations, the members of the research group shared their latest research on the notion of \u201cenvironmental postmemory\u201d, exploring how ecosystems and non-human agents transmit and transform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}