Testimony: Memory, Trauma, Truth, Engagement
Tuesday 29th July ¬ Thursday 31st July 2014
Mansfield College, Oxford
Call for Presentations:
This inaugural conference aims to examine the evolving genres and emerging contexts of testimonial production. Broadly understood, testimony is an autobiographical narrative that presents evidence of first-person accounts of human rights abuses, violence and war, and life under conditions of social oppression. It is a genre that continues to thrive and evolve in the twenty-first century and one that encompasses a diversity of expression or representation from oral to written as well as nonfictional to fictional.