A reception will follow her talk. Cultures of Conflict and Reconciliation speaks to the interdisciplinary work of the New Humanities, according to Rosemary Hennessy, professor of English and coordinator of the series. The series will focus on cultural forms that are interlaced with these social crises within democracies and the practices of reconciliation that have been devised to redress them. Both make use of and spawn narratives and rituals aimed at reconciling what have been at times massive, deep, and violent cracks in democracy. These conflicts are often played out in class, nationalist, religious, and racial terms.
Reconciliation takes various shapes and employs a variety of cultural mechanisms.
Adam Ashforth, visiting associate professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study and a historian of the politics, and culture of South Africa, will deliver the talk. His research focuses on how particular economic ideas and policies transform class and gender relations in economies undergoing sustained processes of internationalization. The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba and author of the forthcoming book, The Pinochet File . She is currently working with U.S. political prisoners on a book project.