by Mukaddas Mijit, ULB/EASt

History and Memory in East Asia (SOCA-D-491) - Coordinator: Pierre Petit & Lisa Richaud

This course addresses the twin issues of history and memory in South-East and North-East Asia. History and memory trigger frictions in East Asia at large, but they can also be considered as a frame or a matrix for the (re)production of social relations and cultural practices in the subcontinent at large. The course intends to approach these processes from an anthropological perspective, sensitive to the long-term and to local contexts, grounded on ethnographic fieldwork and archival sources -- or other relevant sources. This mixed approach should help to gain a better understanding of the representation and the uses of the past in current contexts, ranging from official history to collective or personal memory.

Mukaddas Mijit is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and artist. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) working on Uyghur artistic reaction in the diaspora after the Human rights crisis in the Uyghur region. She was born in Urumchi, the capital of the Uyghur Homeland. Upon arriving in Paris in 2003 to study classical music, she realized how little the outside world knew of Uyghur culture. She then began her studies as an ethnomusicologist, researching the staging of Uyghur dance and music, receiving her PhD in 2015.

Tuesday 19th March 2024, 2pm-4pm

Room P4.1.10
Campus Solbosch - Building P4 - Level 1
Avenue F. Roosevelt 42
1000 Bruxelles

Free entrance

Contact: east@ulb.be