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Symposium: “Recovering Voices from the Margins in Spanish Film, Television and Literature” and “Reviewing Ira Aldridge”
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Mulva Library, First Floor
100 Grant Street, De Pere, WI 54115, United States
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Katie Ginsbach (Modern Languages & Literatures) presents “Recovering Voices from the Margins in Spanish Film, Television and Literature”
How do we remember times we never lived? How can films, documentaries, television, and literature be used to seek justice and denounce the wrongs of previous times? In this presentation, I will give a brief overview of historical representations that attempt to deal with the weight of Spain's national past, particularly in regard to abuses of power, cultural or religious discrimination, and social injustice. I will also discuss how these sources reflect present concerns in Spanish society as well as the ongoing effort in contemporary Spain to recover the voices and experiences of those who have been silenced, repressed, or written out of history.
Lauren Eriks Cline (English) presents “Reviewing Ira Aldridge”
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the career of Ira Aldridge, the first Black American to play Shakespeare on the international stage in the early-to-mid nineteenth century, and it will also explore some of the historiographical questions raised by studying the reviews produced by his (mostly white) European audiences. In addition to introducing students to Aldridge's remarkable career, which included everything from a critically acclaimed whiteface Shylock to what would traditionally have been blackface roles in minstrel plays, I will focus on exploring questions about how racial meanings get made and recirculated. I will close with some ideas about the possibilities for anti-racist reflection on our own position as historical spectators.