[csaa-forum] Rina Benmayor, "Voice Acts": Claiming Cultural Citizenship through Testimonio, Public Lecture, UTS

[Tanja Dreher]

CREATIVITY/PARTICIPATION/ACTION PUBLIC LECTURE Prof. Rina BenMayor
 
“Voice Acts”: Claiming Cultural Citizenship through Testimonio
 
Oral histories and digital stories are more than simple expressions of individual life moments or experiences.  Seen through the framework of "testimonio," of bearing witness and speaking out, personal stories of marginalized communities are "voice acts," acts of speaking back and claiming cultural difference as the basis for full citizenship.  Oral histories and digital stories are also creative andartistic acts of memory.  Through oral histories with working class Puerto Rican women in New York City and digital testimonios created by Mexican/Latino students in rural California, Benmayor argues for understanding these narratives as claims for cultural citizenship.
 
Thursday 24 November 2011
3.30pm
Bldg. 10, Level 2, Room 470
 
RSVP: jemima.mowbray at uts.edu.au
 
Biographical Information
Rina Benmayor is Professor of Oral History, Literature, and Latina/o Studies at California State University Monterey Bay.  She is the Past President of the Oral History Association in the United States, and has served as President of the International Oral History Association.  She is co-editor with William Flores and co-author of Latino Cultural Citizenship (Beacon Press 1997), co-author of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Duke U Press, 2001), and has written various essays on digital storytelling.
 

The symposium and public lecture are hosted by:
UTS/ICE Linkage Project, Ripple Effects: community building, participation and cultural citizenship trough creative practices in Western Sydney


Dr Tanja Dreher
Lecturer, Media and Communication
Faculty of Arts
University of Wollongong, NSW 2522
Room 19.2022
Phone +61 (0)2 42981219