Date: April 3, 2025 
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm ET 
Location: 519 Kaneff Tower, York University – Keele Campus & Online (Hybrid) 
RSVP: cfr@yorku.ca 

Memorializing Violence brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. The volume uses a transnational feminist approach to ask, How do such efforts in seemingly unconnected remembrance landscapes speak to, with, and through each other in a world order inflected by colonial, imperial, and neoliberal logics, structures, and strictures? How do these memorializing initiatives not only formulate within but move through complex transnational flows and circuits, and what transpires as they do? What does it mean to inhabit loss, mourning, resistance, and refusal through memorialization at this moment, and what’s at stake in doing so? What might transnational feminist analyses of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nation have to offer in this regard? 

The book features work by Carmela Murdocca, Amber Dean, Karine Duhamel, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, María de los Ángeles Aguilar, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Shahrzad Mojab, Chowra Makaremi, Ayu Ratih, Honor Ford-Smith, Juanita Stephen, Erica S. Lawson, Ola Osman, Alma Cordelia Rizzo Reyes, Charlotte Henay, Camille Turner & Mila Mendez. The book is available for pre-order at this link: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/memorializing-violence/9781978843257/ 

Professor Alissa Trotz from the University of Toronto will be the discussant for the launch. More details to follow!  

Co-sponsored by the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice, the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies.