"Memory complex: Rhetorics of remembrance then and now"

Dr. Wilson will offer a comparison of the socio-political climate in Argentina in 1985 (one in which the politics of memory and justice was just taking root), and the present-day flourishing of an official rhetoric of remembrance. Dr. Wilson analyzes the performative aspects of ongoing trials of the military juntas, as well as the proliferation of museums and sites of memory, such as the Museo Olimpo and the ESMA museum of memory complex in Buenos Aires.