Dr. Mary Zournazi - "Reparation, Creativity, & Justice"

The Social Justice Institute 2022-2023 Noted Scholars Series. "Reparation, Creativity, & Justice" with Dr. Mary Zournazi (Nov. 30, 2022)

This presentation will explore how to understand the vital role of reparation in thinking through the questions of justice and creative practice. As a film maker and documentarian, I am interested in how to create images and points of view that enable different modes of storytelling that engage with and provide the context for traumas, memories and everyday experiences that often occluded from chronicles of history. Drawing on works of Melanie Klein, Judith Butler and others, I explore some of the conceptual and practical considerations for a new kind of justice and approach to image making and non-violence. In the presentation, I will present some of my own visual approaches to these considerations and I will show clips from two of my recent documentaries.

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Dr. Mary Zournazi is an Australian film maker, author and cultural philosopher. Her multi-awarding winning documentary Dogs of Democracy (2017) was screened worldwide. Her most recent documentary film, My Rembetika Blues is a film about life, love and Greek music. She is the author of several books including Key words to War, Hope – New Philosophies for Change, Inventing Peace with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders and most recently Justice and Love with Rowan Williams.