Primo Levi and Testimony, Today

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Image courtesy of Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)

Just months after the 35th anniversary of the death of Primo Levi, Lecturer Marta Marín-Dòmine reflects on the condition of the contemporary witness by looking at the figure of the author.

Beyond offering one of the most striking accounts of the experience of a concentration camp, Primo Levi’s work has generated a field of knowledge and a benchmark epistemological framework for the condition of the witness. Today, at a moment in history where witnesses of different kinds of violence, especially violence of colonial origin and gender-based violence, are converging, Levi's work offers us a unique perspective from which to reflect on the construction of both individual and collective memory and on the paradoxes of the transmission of lived experience.

From #metoo to #blacklivesmatter and the victims of the pandemic, the contemporary testimonial condition, often articulated through digital media, leads to mass reactions that can cross borders instantly, with unpredictable consequences.

This event will be held in Catalan. 

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