Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network News Newsletter No. 13

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Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the thirteenth issue of the Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network News (formerly Historical Justice and Memory Research Network News). The Network, which operates from www.historicaldialogues.org, provides information and resources for scholars and activists working on issues of historical justice and social and public memory to encourage innovative interdisciplinary, transnational, and comparative research.

The Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network is a joint initiative of the Historical Justice and Memory Research Network (HJMRN), housed at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, and Columbia University’s Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA), at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) in New York. It draws on an international team of collaborators and affiliates.

We draw your attention to our latest book reviews, including:

Read this and other reviews on our website.

If you have any information about calls for papers, new publications, forthcoming conferences, or jobs that could be publicized in future newsletters or via the Dialogues website, please email us at dialogues@columbia.edu.

Best wishes,

Carla De Ycaza

Editor, Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory

Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability

Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Columbia University

dialogues@columbia.edu

Books for Review

We currently have available a number of English, French, and German books for review. Please contact the relevant editor (Stephen Winter for English-language titles; Elizabeth Rechniewski for French-language titles; Nina Schneider for German-language titles; Patrizia Violi for Italian-language titles; and Juan José Cruz and Rosario Figari Layús for Spanish-language titles) on our website www.historicaldialogues.org if you are interested.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

September 2013

A Search for Truth: A Critical Analysis of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Carla De Ycaza; Human Rights Review 14 (3) 189-212.

August 2013

After the Civil War: Making Memory and Re-Making Spain since 1936

Michael Richards; Cambridge University Press.

July 2013

Major events and the collective memory of conflicts

Rafi Nets-Zehngut; International Journal of Conflict Management 24 (3), 209-230.

April 2013

The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – Comparing Israeli documented sources to Palestinian oral ones.

Rafi Nets-Zehngut; Megamot 49 (1), 3-27. (Hebrew).

National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

Gérard Bouchard, ed.; Routledge.

June 2012

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: the ‘Uniqueness of the Holocaust’ and the Question of Genocide

Dirk Moses, Journal of Genocide Research 14 (2), 215-38.

Announcements and Opportunities

Calls for Papers: Conferences and Workshops

Memory in El Salvador, Central America

Deadline: August 23, 2013

Location: LASA, Chicago (2014)

Contact: Molly Todd at mollynmntodd@gmail.com

2nd Call for Papers: Conference on “The Role of Education in a Multicultural Cyprus”

New Submission Deadline: September 10, 2013

Dates: November 29 and 30, 2013

Location: UNESCO Amphitheater, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Contact: John Mavris at mavris.j@unic.ac.cy

War, Memory, and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Deadline: October 15, 2013

Date: March 27-29, 2014

Location: Mobile, Alabama

Contact: Interested scholars should email a 350-word proposal, along with a CV, to conference co-directors Martha Jane Brazy (mjbrazy@southalabama.edu) and Steven Trout (strout@southalabama.edu) before October 15, 2013.

Ninth Biennial MESEA Conference: “Crossing Boundaries in a Post-Ethnic Era – Interdisciplinary Approaches and Negotiations”

Deadline: November 15, 2013

Dates: May 29th – June 1st 2014

Location: Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken Germany

Contact: earapoglou@ucdavis.edu   

Holocaust in Hungary

Deadline: November 30, 2013

Dates: March 17-18, 2014.

Location: Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL

Contact: Please submit an abstract of no more than 150 words, and a short biographical statement, to Dr. Paul Bartrop at pbartrop@fgcu.edu by November 30, 2013.

Call for Papers: Journals and Book Chapters

Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network Working Paper Series

Deadline: Rolling

Dates: Fall 2013

Contact: Paper submissions to co-editors Michelle Bellino and Cathlin Goulding at dialogues@columbia.edu.

Rescuers of Mass Atrocities in Latin America During and After the Cold War

NEW Extended Deadline: September 1, 2013                                                                                           

Contact: Marcia Esparza, Carla De Ycaza, Lina Rojas (eds.) at latinamericarescuersbook@gmail.com.

20 Years after Genocide: Psychology’s Engagement with Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Rwanda

Deadline: September 30, 2013

Contact: Special Section Editor, Craig McGarty, c.mcgarty@murdoch.edu.au

“Transitional Justice” and Legacies of State Violence in Latin America

Deadline:  October 1, 2013                                                                                           

Contact: Marcia Esparza & Nina Schneider, tjlatinamericabook@gmail.com

Upcoming Events, Conferences and Study Programs

Hacettepe MA in Peace & Conflict Studies

Deadline: September 1, 2013

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Contact: peace@hacettepe.edu.tr

“Terror and Taboo: Going to Turkey”- Talk by Peter Balakian, Department of English, Colgate University

Date: September 25, 2013,  6-8 pm

Location: Faculty House, Columbia University, NY

Contact: Columbia University Cultural Memory Colloquium, cumemory@gmail.com

“Contemporary History and its Discontents: Memory Politics in Morocco”- Talk by Sonja Hegasy, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

Date: October 3, 2013, 7-9 pm

Location: Faculty House, Columbia University, NY

Contact: Columbia University Cultural Memory Colloquium, cumemory@gmail.com

The Antonym of Forgetting: Global Perspectives on Human Rights Archives

Date: October 18-19, 2013

Location: University of California, Los Angeles

Contact: Michelle Caswell at caswell@gseis.ucla.edu

“Memory Works”- Talk by Marcelo Brodsky, artist and human rights activist, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date: November 25, 2013, 6-8 pm

Location: Faculty House, Columbia University, NY

Contact: Columbia University Cultural Memory Colloquium, cumemory@gmail.com

Is Thought Action? NICA/ASCA Conference Exploring Tensions Between Academic Theory and Praxis
Date: November 28, 2013

Location: Netherlands
Contact: isthoughtaction@gmail.com

Fellowships, Grants and Job Opportunities

UN Women, Advocacy and Communications Analyst

Application Deadline: August 20, 2013

Research Fellowships Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

Deadline: September 15, 2013

Location: Germany

Contact: halder@gei.de

Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) 2014 applications now open

The application for the 2014 session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University is now available. The application is available online at http://hrcolumbia.org/hrap/apply/.  This web-based format is the only version of the 2014 application. Participants are selected on the basis of their previous work experience in human rights, commitment to the human rights field, and demonstrated ability to pursue graduate-level studies. Full-time students or government officials will not be considered. This extremely competitive Program will admit approximately ten participants.  We make every effort to provide full fellowships to cover program costs as well as travel and living expenses for selected Advocates each year.

Other

Militant and Migrant: The Politics and Social History of Punjab

Blog posting by Radhika Chopra


The Vienna Project Newsletter Update

Holocaust and memory project in Vienna, opening on October 23, 2013.

Newsletter: http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=87d77127f111d18238073a931&id=475279296a&e=3ed71c5949

Memory of Myanmar

ND-Burma introduces Truth Commission in collaboration with DC-Cam

http://www.nd-burma.org/news/780-nd-burma-introduces-truth-commission-in-collaboration-with-dc-cam.html

The Annual Report 2013 of the Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)

This is the 19th Annual Report of the NCH. It contains 111 pages of news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially about the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations and other sources. It covers events and developments of 2012 and 2013. This circular is sent to 1467 historians and others interested in the past all over the world.

Course Offering: Torture in the 21st Century: History, Ethics and Human Rights

Location: Center for Global Affairs, New York University, Woolworth Bldg.-15 Barclay St, NY, NY

Dates: September 18, 2013 – November 20, 2013 (Wednesdays 6:45PM – 8:25PM)

For more information and to enroll, please visit http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/global-affairs/academic-offerings/noncredit.html.

Course Offering: Tyrants on Trial: Case Studies in Prosecuting Heads of State

Dates: September 19, 2013 – November 21, 2013 (Thursdays 6:45PM – 8:25PM)

Location: Center for Global Affairs, New York University, Woolworth Bldg.-15 Barclay St, NY, NY

For more information and to enroll, please visit http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/global-affairs/academic-offerings/noncredit.html.

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