Network Conference Schedule
The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence, and Contested Memories of the Past
December 3-5, 2015
Columbia University
International Affairs Building (IAB), 420 West 118th Street, New York City
SCHEDULE:
Thursday, December 3, 2015
8:30am-9:00am REGISTRATION and COFFEE,
Fourth floor, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street
FIRST SESSION: 9:00am-10:30am
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Memory and Memory Construction in the European Context
Location: Faculty House, Ivy Lounge
Panel Chair: Jonathan Bush, Columbia University
Aline Sierp, Maastricht University, Netherlands
“1939 versus 1989 – Contested European Lieux de Mémoire”
Wolfram Kaiser, University of Portsmouth UK and Anette Homlong Storeide, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
“From Europe to the World: International Organizations and Holocaust Memory”
Nina Janz, German War Grave Commission, Germany
“Reconciliation above the Graves – the Politics of Memory of War Dead in Germany”
Transitional Justice Processes in Local Context
Location: Jerome Greene Annex
Panel Chair:Kristina Eberbach, Columbia University
Eliana Jimeno, National Centre for Historical Memory, Colombia
“Victimhood and Transitional Justice Processes in Colombia”
Nader Ahmad, Forum Ziviler Freidensdienst and Nada Al Maghlouth, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
“How People Talk about the Lebanon Wars: A Study of the Perceptions and Expectations of Residents in Greater Beirut”
Holly L. Guthrey, Uppsala University, Sweden
“Allergic to the Past? Exploring Perceptions of the Acknowledgement versus peace tradeoff in Aceh, Indonesia”
Debbie Sharnak, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Thirty Years After Transition: Reexamining Justice Debates and the Passage of the Ley De Caducidad in Uruguay”
Contested Narratives of Victimhood: Multidisciplinary, Multi-Local and Multi-Vocal Approach
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Panel Chair: Amy Starecheski, Columbia University
Kosal Path, Brooklyn College, CUNY
“Contesting the Public Narrative of the Khmer Rouge: Collective Memory of the Former Khmer Rouge Community in Anlong Veng”
Eve Zucker, Rutgers University
“Narratives of Victimhood and the Other Tales: Perspectives from an Upland Area of Southwest Cambodia”
Laura McGrew, Independent consultant
“Changing Narratives of Victims and Perpetrators in Cambodia: Community Responses to Dialogue Interventions in the Presence of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia”
Contested Memories of the Armenian Genocide
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1201
Panel Chair: Harout Ekmanian, Independent Journalist, Armenia/ Columbia University
Güler Alkan, University of Graz, Austria
“’We suffered the same’—the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide and Kurdish nation-building in southeastern Turkey”
Eldad Ben Aharon, Royal Holloway University, United Kingdom
“A Unique Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide”
Armen T. Marsoobian, Southern Connecticut State University
“Memory, Memorialization and Bearing Witness: Contested Memories of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey Today”
COFFEE BREAK, 10:30am-10:45am, International Affairs Building, 4th floor
SECOND SESSION: 10:45pm-12:15pm
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Addressing Historical Violence through Shared Narratives
Location: Faculty House, Ivy Lounge
Panel Chair, Alexander Karn, Colgate University
Klaus Neumann, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
“The end of the Ortstafelstreit: an analysis of an historical dialogue in Austria”
Arpad Hornjak, Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences/University of Pécs, Hungary
“The Hungarian-Serbian Reconciliation Project”
Vittorio Bufacchi, University College Cork, Ireland
“Historical Violence”
Nadim Khouri, University of Tromsø, Norway
“The Negotiation of Identity as a Negotiation of Plot Structures: Attempts at a Methodology”
Repairing the Past: The Role of State and Community in Colombia
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Panel Chair: Elazar Barkan, Columbia University
Alison Castel, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
“Prophecy and the Making of Agents: The Politics of Victimhood and Reparations”
Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee on Violence, Subjectivity and Culture/ Program for Critical Studies of Political Transitions/ Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
“The Ethics of Listening: Regarding the Pain of War in Colombia”
Niousha Roshani, University College London, United Kingdom
“Making Sense of Their Lives: Children’s Practices of Memory and Violence in Urban Societies in Colombia”
Jenny Escobar, University of California-Santa Cruz
“’Memoria Viva’: State Violence and the Movement for Memory in Colombia”
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Restorative Justice Processes and the Legacies of Mass Violence
Location: Jerome Greene Annex
Panel Chair: Roxanne Krystalli, Tufts University
Najwa Belkziz, University of Melbourne, Australia
“The Process of Memory Formation in Morocco: What Moroccans ought to know about their troubled past”
Noga Glucksam, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom
“Truth(s), Historicity and Hegemony: A critical study of the Liberia TRC as a space of narrative contestation”
Michelle Bellino, University of Michigan
“Truth Commissions and Education: Looking Forward, Looking Back”
Simon Robins, University of York, United Kingdom
“Remembering Histories of Structural Violence: Tunisia’s Efforts to Address Regional Marginalisation”
Addressing Colonial and Postcolonial Legacies of Violence
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1201
Panel Chair: Andrew Newman, Stonybrook University
Magali Compan, College of William and Mary
“World War II’s Holocaust and Postcolonial Francophone Literature from the Indian Ocean”
Neena Gandhi, American University of Sharja, UAE
“1947: Partition, Postcolonialism and Sites of Memory”
Victoria Witkowski, European University Institute, Italy
“The Memorialisation of Rodolfo Graziani and the Amnesia of Italian Historical Consciousness”
Dr. Patience M. Sone, University of South Africa/University of Buea, Cameroon
“Victimization and Conflict: The Dilemma of Anglophone Cameroon”
LUNCH BREAK, 12:15pm-1:30pm
THIRD SESSION: 1:30pm-3:00pm
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Defining Victims and Perpetrators in the Central/Eastern European and Russian Context
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1201
Panel Chair: Nanci Adler, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies/University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kimberly Allar, Clark University
“When Victims Become Killers. The Case of the Trawniki Men”
Dmitry Chernobrov, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
“Identifying through WW2 Metaphors: Russian and Ukrainian Public Accounts of the Ukrainian Crisis”
Michelle Penn, University of Colorado
“Crimes against ‘Peaceful Soviet Citizens’ and Russia Today”
Historical Anniversaries and Acts of Commemoration in the Present
Location: Faculty House, Ivy Lounge
Panel Chair: Volker Berghahn, Columbia University
Harold Goldberg, Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee
“The 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings and the Changing Nature of Victimization”
Meghan Tinsley, Boston University
“’A Commemoration that Captures our National Spirit’: Britain and its Others in the World War I Cemetery”
Laura Beth Cohen, Rutgers University
“Commemoration as Spectacle: Memorialization of the Srebrenica Genocide Twenty Years Onward”
Gevorg Vardanyan, Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute, Armenia
“Genocide Memory: Armenian Genocide Museum and Challenges of Representation”
Holocaust Victimhood and Commemoration
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Panel Chair: Berel Lang, SUNY-Albany
Yosefa Loshitzky, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom
“The Woman Who Hated(?) the Jewish People: Hannah Arendt Revisited by Margarethe von Trotta”
Sarah Federman, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
“Honoring the Holocaust in France & Contemporary Anti-Semitism: Is the Past in the Past?”
Elizabeth Bryant, Valencia College
“Nazism’s Forgotten Victims? Male Homosexuals and Holocaust Commemoration”
Lotte F.M. Houwink Ten Cate, Columbia University
“A Jewish ‘Collaborator’ on Trial: The 1948 Dutch Execution of Anna Van Dijk in the Courtroom and the Press”
Brazil: Victims, Perpetrators and the Memory of Violence in Contemporary Society
Location: Jerome Greene Annex
Panel Chair: Gustavo Azenha, Columbia University
Lucia Elena Aranes Ferreira Bastos, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
“From Dictatorship to Democracy: Progresses and Setbacks in the Brazilian Politics of Memory”
Cleber Kemper, International Committee of the Red Cross, Brazil
“Victims, Perpetrators and the (Im)possible Reconciliation: Contested Victimization in Brazil, the Araguaia Case”
Sarah R. Valente, University of Texas, Dallas
“From Auschwitz to Brazil: Anniversaries of Historical Violence and the Legacies Today”
COFFEE BREAK, 3:00pm-3:30pm
FOURTH SESSION: 3:30pm-5:00pm
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Religious Identity and the Commemoration of Violence in Literary Narrative
Panel Chair: Mark A. Wolfgram, Oklahoma State University
Location: Faculty House, Ivy Lounge
Septemmy Lakawa, Harvard University/Jakarta Theological Seminary, Indonesia
“An Indonesian Historiograpy of Contested Trauma, the Everydayness of Violence and the Aesthetics of Interreligious Peace”
Ayse Naz Bulamur, Bogazici University, Turkey
“Istanblues: The City as a Site of Nostalgia”
Younes Saramifar, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
“Tracing War-Memories”
Waged Jafer, University of British Columbia, Canada
“Starving for Recognition: Ending Centuries of Victimhood through the Power of Narratives”
Addressing the Legacy of Violence: Case Studies from Latin America
Panel Chair: Rosario Figari-Layús, University of Marburg, Germany
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 802
Fabio Andres Diaz, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands and Louis Monroy-Santander, University of Birmingham
“Colombia and Bosnia, Victims and Peace: And Justice for All?”
Annelise Finney, Independent scholar
“Monumental Wounds: Promoting Social Healing through the Urban Landscape of Santiago, Chile”
Alexander Joel Eastman, Washington University in St. Louis
“’The Triunvirato Cemetary’: Diaspora, Grief and the Contested Memory of a Slave Massacre in Cuba”
Roxanne Krystalli, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
“‘We are not good victims’: Enforced Disappearance and the Politics of Victimhood in Colombia”
Remembering the 1965 anti-Communist Violence in Indonesia and its Effects
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Panel Chair: Margaret Scott, New York University
Ken Setiawan, University of Melbourne, Australia
“Transmitting Suffering and Survival: Sites of Memory on the Eastern Indonesian Island Buru”
Pam Allen, University of Tasmania, Australia
“Imagining Exile in Leila Chudori’s novel Pulang and Laksmi Pamuntjak’s novel Amba”
Katharine McGregor, University of Melbourne, Australia
“Confronting Historical Injustice: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Anti-Communist Violence”
Violence and its Aftermath: Addressing the Past in Ireland
Location: Jerome Greene Annex
Panel Chair: Mary McGlynn, Baruch College-CUNY
Richard McMahon, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
“Contested Narratives of Violence in Modern Irish History and Culture”
John Regan, University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
“The ‘Exodus Myth’ and Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Ireland”
Siobhán Doyle, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
“1916 Easter Rising and the Reconceptualisation of Memory”
Anne-Marie McAlinden, Queen’s University Belfast, and Heather Conway, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
“The Politics and Memoralisation of Victimhood: Historic Institutional Abuse in Ireland”
COFFEE BREAK, 5:00pm-5:30pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Location: Journalism School, 3rd floor auditorium
Keynote Speaker: Zoe Konstantapoulou, President of the Greek Parliament
Greek Memory of German Violence: The Question of Reparations
Truth, justice and selective memory: from the war reparations owed to Greece by Germany to today’s memoranda regime targeting human rights and democracy in the name of “Greek debt”. Is Europe honoring its post-WW2 commitments?
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Friday, December 4, 2015
8:30am-9:00am REGISTRATION and COFFEE
Fourth floor, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 9:00am-10:15am
Location: International Affairs Building, 417
Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Olick, Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
From Collective Guilt to the Politics of Regret
10:15am-10:30am
Mapping Historical Dialogue: A Collaborative Network Project
Elazar Barkan, Columbia University
COFFEE BREAK, 10:30am-11:00am (International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street)
SECOND SESSION: 11:00am-12:30pm
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Post-Memory: The Memory of Violence for the Second Generation and Beyond
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 801
Panel Chair: Jessica Lang, Baruch College-CUNY
Melis Behlil, Kadir Has University, Turkey
“Grandma’s Stories: Armenian Genocide Through the Eyes of the Descendants”
Zahra Neda Soltani, Freie University of Berlin, Germany
“Remembering the 1980s Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran: ‘We Neither Forgive; Nor Do We Forget!’”
Anthony Nuckols, University of Valencia, Spain
“Eighty Years On: (Trans)nationalizing and (Re)politicizing the Way We Write and Read the Spanish Civil War”
Jana Stoklasa, Leibniz University, Germany
“My father was not a criminal!—The contested narrative of the double victimization of German Communists”
The Emergence of Memory: Considering the Legacies of the Spanish Civil War
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 802
Panel Chair: Stephanie Golob, Baruch College-CUNY
Vincent Druliolle, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
“The Struggle for Recognition of Spain’s Stolen Children: A Case of Competing Victimhoods?”
Lidia Mateo Leivas and Zoe de Kerangat, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/CCHS-CSIC, Spain “Against the Politics of forgetting: the Invisibilization of the Spanish Civil War Crimes during the Transition and the Recent Emergence of Memory”
Daniela Flesler and Adrian Perez Melgosa, Stony Brook University
“Memory Entanglements: Post-Civil War Repression and Spain’s Jewish Past”
Contested Narratives of the Genocidal, Colonial, and Communist Past
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 404
Panel Chair: Tarik Amar, Columbia University
Thijs Bouwknegt, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Netherlands
“The Politics of History and Operationalization of Founding Narratives in Rwanda”
Peter Romijn, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies/University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Victimhood in Competing Narratives of the Dutch ‘Long War of the 1940s’”
Jennifer Foray, Purdue University
“Heroic Narratives Versus Decolonizing Violence: The Impossible Position of the Dutch Communists during the Dutch-Indonesian Conflict”
Nanci Adler, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies/University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Narratives Competing for the Public Space in Post-Soviet Russia”
Roundtable: Historical Justice and Memory: Foundations and Prospects
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1302
Panel Chair: Klaus Neumann, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Klaus Neumann, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Jeffrey Blustein, CUNY; Diana Meyers, University of Connecticut; John Torpey, CUNY; Elazar Barkan, Columbia University; Karina Horsti, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
LUNCH BREAK, 12:30pm-1:45pm
THIRD SESSION: 1:45pm-3:15pm
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The Art of Commemoration
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 801
Panel Chair: Hasini Haputhanthri, GIZ, Sri Lanka/Columbia University
Vicky Karaiskou, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
“The Price of Blood: Narratives of Victimization, Visualities of the Past and the Materiality of Memory”
Ani Tatintsyan, California Institute of the Arts
“Melancholic Attachments”
Lindsay Anne Balfour, New York University/ 9/11 Memorial and Museum
“Violence, Memorialization, and Hospitality: Making the Case for Public Art at the 9/11 Museum”
Karen Frostig, Lesley University/Brandeis University/The Vienna Project
“Representations of Memory: Who is Remembered 75 Years after the Anschluss”
History Education and Memory Formation
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 802
Panel Chair: Michelle Bellino, University of Michigan
Alan Stoskopf, Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences/ University of Massachusetts-Boston
“Identity and Memory Formation in the Present through the Silencing of Narratives of Violence in the Past: Representations of the ‘Trail of Tears’ in American history textbooks”
Andrea Pruchová, Charles University, Czech Republic/New York University / Pratt Institute
“Picturing the Political Violence in Children’s Educational Materials: An Analysis of Representations of the Nazi and the Soviet Occupation in the Czech History Textbooks and Education”
Karen Espiritu, York University, Canada
“’Not in Our Names’: Victimization, Remembrance Pedagogy, and the September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows”
Juan Espindola, CIDE Mexico City, Mexico
“Why Historical Injustice Should be Taught at Schools”
Victims in the Courts: New Perspectives on Victims’ Rights vs. Impunity
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 402B
Panel Chair: Ulrike Capdepon Busies, DAAD/Columbia University
Stephanie Golob, Baruch College/the Graduate Center –CUNY
“Expect Delays: Judge Garzón’s Caso Franquismo and the Detoured Legal Route to Justice in Spain”
Rosario Figari-Layús, University of Marburg, Germany
“Domestic Human Rights Trials in Argentina and their Implications for Victims”
Sonja Perkic-Krempl, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
“Breaking the Silence: The Participation of Sexually Violated Women in the Guatemalan Genocide Trial”
Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University
“From Victimhood to Citizenship: The Experience of Survivors and Relatives of Victims in the Accomarca Massacre Trial in Peru”
Memory and the Legacy of Violence in East Asia
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1302
Panel Chair: Steffen Rimner, Columbia University
Yukiko Koga, Hunter College-City University of New York
“Unquiet Landscapes: Abandoned Chemical Weapons and Delayed Violence in East Asia”
Jae Yeong Han, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France
“Evolution of the Memory of the Korean War in South Korea”
Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University
“To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking”
COFFEE BREAK, 3:15pm-3:45pm
FOURTH SESSION: 3:45pm-5:15pm
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Performing Commemoration as Historical Dialogue
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 404
Panel Chair: Kerry Whigham, New York University
Karina Horsti, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
“Mediterranean Migrant Tragedies: Commemorating an ongoing mass death”
Erna Anjarwati, University of Tasmania, Australia
“The Performance of Memory: Transformative Peace Education in Post-Genocide Cambodia”
Luisa Gandolfo, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
“The Theatre of Truth(s): Giving and Performing Testimonies in Palestine-Israel”
Zoë Heyn-Jones, York University, Canada
“Performing the Archivio Histórico de la Policía Nacional: Walking through Guatemala’s National Police Archive”
Diasporic Communities, Transnational Memory and the Identity of Victimhood
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 405
Panel Chair: Klaus Neumann, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Cathrin Ruppe, University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany
“Narratives of Victimisation and Violence: Collective Memories of Irish Americans and the Troubles”
Claudine Kuradusenge, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
“Denied Victimhood and Contested Narratives: The Case of Hutu Diaspora”
James Deutsch, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
“The ‘Encoded Ways’ of Remembering the Armenian Genocide”
Laura Boerhout, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Negotiating transnational memory narratives on the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mnemonic Battles & Memory Activism in The Netherlands between 1995 and 2015”
Memory and Reconciliation in Settler Colonial Societies
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 802
Panel Chair: Sarah Maddison, University of Melbourne, Australia
Desiree Valadares, UC Berkeley
“Dispossessing the Wilderness: Environmental Peace-Building and Reconciliation in Canada’s National Parks”
Ravi de Costa, University of Melbourne and Tom Clark, Victoria University, Australia
“Non-Indigenous Australians and the ‘responsibility to engage’?”
Memory and Historical Justice in Indonesia: the Case of the 1965 anti-communist violence
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 801
Panel Chair: Katharine McGregor, University of Melbourne, Australia
Leslie Dwyer, George Mason University
“Wound and Witness: The Affective Politics of Transitional Justice in Bali, Indonesia”
Vannessa Hearman, University of Sydney, Australia
“Contesting Victimhood and the Place of ‘incidental victims’ in the 1965 Indonesia case”
Baskara T. Wardaya, Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia
“Mass Violence, Public Discourse, and Grassroots Initiatives in Indonesia”
Saturday, December 5, 2015
8:30am-9:00am REGISTRATION and COFFEE,
Fourth floor, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street
FIRST SESSION: 9:00am-10:30am
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Museums, Historical Dialogue and Their Politics in the Past and Present
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Panel Chair: Brian Boyd, Columbia University
Joyce Apsel, New York University
“The Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Risumeiken University: Facing Contested Histories Past and Present and Working toward Reconciliation and Disarmament”
Amy Sodaro, Borough of Manhattan Community College – CUNY
“Selective Memory: Memorial Museums, Historical Dialogue, and the Politics of Victimization”
Roy Tamashiro, Webster University
“Vietnam’s War Memorial Museums: Contested Memories, Unfinished Agendas and the Search for Identity”
Defining Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation Processes
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 404
Panel Chair: Nora Ahmetaj, Center for Research, Documentation and Publication (CRDP), Kosovo/ Columbia University
Lea David, Pittsburgh University
“The Dark Side of the Hybrid Form of Peace: The Holocaust-Genocide Nexus in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Israel and Palestine”
Elham Atashi, Georgetown University
“Memory and Collective Suffering in Northern Ireland”
Sarah Maddison, University of Melbourne and Rachael Diprose, University of Melbourne, Australia
“Narratives of Violence: Mobilising Historical Dialogue for Conflict Transformation in Contemporary Politics”
Oral Histories: Remembering a Violent Past
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 405
Panel Chair: Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University
Anna Di Lellio, The New School/New York University and Lura Limani, American University of Kosovo/Kosovo Oral History Initiative
“Below the Radar: Memories of the Second World War in Kosovo”
Sadaf Munshi, University of North Texas and Ajay Raina, Independent filmmaker
“Documenting Kashmir’s Conflict History: The Battle of Narratives”
Nayla Khodr Hamadeh, Lebanese Association for History, Lebanon/Columbia University
“It is time for ‘History Talks’ in Lebanon: How can oral history respond to the curricular void created after the civil war?”
Inherited Pasts: Race and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Panel Chair: Shelly Eversley, Baruch College-CUNY
Carolyn Kitch, Temple University
“Remarking Protest: Anniversary Memory and Multimedia Witnessing of the American Civil Rights Movement”
Amy Kirschke, University of North Carolina – Wilmington
“African American Cartoonists and Lynching: Racial Terrorism and the Power of a Visual Narrative”
Jill Strauss, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
“Shared Legacies Come to the Table: Stories of Slavery, Lived Experiences of Injustice, and the Courage to Face Our Inherited Pasts”
COFFEE BREAK, 10:30am-10:45am
SECOND SESSION: 10:45am-12:15pm
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Legal Processes and their Limitations in Dealing with the Past
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Panel Chair: Belinda Cooper, Columbia University
Sarah Deibler, Independent scholar
“Rape by any other Name: Mapping the Feminist Legal Discourse Regarding Rape in Conflict onto Transitional Justice in Cambodia”
Henry Redwood, King’s College London, United Kingdom
“The Legalisation of History at the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda, and the Return of the Voiceless Victim”
Ulrike Capdepon, DAAD/ISHR
“The Franco Dictatorship Investigated before Argentinean Courts: New Perspectives on the Victims in Spanish Public Debate”
Nourit Zimerman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“The Fairness Hearing: Between Legal Effectiveness and Social Meaning, Between Past and Future”
Bearing Witness and the Role of Testimony in Historical Dialogue
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 404
Panel Chair: Ariella Lang, Columbia University
Sandra Ristovska, University of Pennsylvania
“How Video Bears Witness to Atrocities: The Case of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia”
Samantha Lakin, Clark University
“Victims, Survivors, Advocates? Justice and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda”
Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Early and Later Holocaust Survivor Testimony”
Kathryn Mara, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Story/Stories of the Rwandan Genocide: Negotiating Victimhood in Literary Testimony”
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Collective Forgetting and Remembering
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 405
Panel Chair: Daniel Levy, Stony Brook University
William Hirst, New School for Social Research
“Remembering a Violent Past: A Ten-Year Longitudinal Study of Memories for the Attack of September 11, 2001”
Marc Howard Ross, Bryn Mawr College
“Slavery in the North: How and why the north forgot about its own history of enslavement”
Barry Schwartz, University of Georgia
“Commemoration in the Post-Heroic Era”
Mark A. Wolfgram, Oklahoma State University
“The Consequences of Eastern and Western Cultural Traditions for Collective Memory Formation”
The Role of Place and Visual Culture: the Legacy of Violence in the Balkans
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Panel Chair: Dijana Jelaca, St. Johns University
Hikmet Karcic, Institute for Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks, Bosnia & Herzegovina
“Bosnia Remembering: Genocide and Memory in the Drina Valley”
Manca Bajec, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
“Historical Revisionism in former Yugoslavia: Artistic Practice as Method of Reconciliation”
Gruia Badescu, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
“Memorializing Victimhood: Ruins, Urban Construction and Symbolic Violence in Belgrade”
Roundtable:
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 801
Panel Chair: Öykü Gürpinar, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Turkey
The Perceptions of Victimhood and the Constitution of Subjectivities of the 4th Generation after Genocide: A Comparative Study on the Armenian Youth in Turkey and Armenia
Öykü Gürpinar, Derya Fırat, Barış Şannan, Öndercan Muti, Fatma Özkaya, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Turkey/The Association for the Study of Sociology of Memory and Culture, Turkey
LUNCH BREAK, 12:15pm-1:30pm
THIRD SESSION: 1:30pm-3:00pm
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Acts of Commemoration and Memorialization
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 802
Panel Chair: Sophia Milosevic Bijleveld, Sites of Conscience
Irene Silverblatt, Duke University
“Confronting Nationalisms in Western Ukraine: Politics of Memory and Future Visions in Performance and Poetry”
Maria Starzmann, McGill University, Canada
“Present Absence: Narrating Historical Loss in Archaeology”
Adrienne Reilly, University of Strathclyde/Historical Child Abuse Inquiry, United Kingdom
“The Role of Memorials as Reconciliation Mechanisms? Initial Investigation from Transcripts of Evidence of the Statutory Element of the Historical Child Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland”
Rachel Hatcher, Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, South Africa
“”Victimhood and the Monument to Memory and Truth: Toward Reconciliation in El Salvador”
Textbooks and the Role of Education in Remembering Violent Pasts
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Panel Chair: Cathlin Goulding, Columbia University
Khalil “Haji” Dokhanchi, University of Wisconscin-Superior and Karl F. Bahm, University of Wisconsin-Superior
“Learning to Forget: Education and Civic Identity in Bosnia and Northern Ireland”
Borislava Manojlovic, Seton Hall University
“Collective Traumas of the Second World War in Croatia: Examining Official and Individual Narratives of the Past”
Cheryl Duckworth, Nova Southeastern University
“Victim Narratives, Exclusion and Violence: France’s Unwanted Maghrebi Youth”
Historical Dialogue and Contemporary Politics in East and West Africa
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1201
Panel Chair: Paul Martin, Barnard College
Abdiwasa Abdilahi, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
“Federalism in Ethiopia: Reconciling the Past with Present, the Case of the Somali Region of Ethiopia”
Richard Obinna Iroanya, University of South Africa, South Africa
“Collective Recollection of Violent Past and its Impact on Nation-Building: The Case of Ndi-Igbo in Nigeria”
Henok Gabisa, Washington and Lee University School of Law
“Historical Injustices in Ethiopia: Comparative Analysis of Legislative Solution/Law of Denial”
Carla De Ycaza, New York University
“Violence, Justice and Memory in Africa”
Victims and Perpetrators in the World Wars and their Aftermath
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 801
Panel Chair: Peter Romijn, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies/University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephanie De Paola, Fordham University
“Race and Victimhood in Postwar Representations of Sexual Violence in World War II Italy”
Annette Weinke, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany/Princeton University
“A not-so-gentle Civilizer: German Self-Perceptions as “Victim” of International (Criminal) Law after the First and Second World War”
Margherita Sulas, University of Cagliari, Italy
“Trieste and the Istrian Question from 1943 through the Postwar Period”
Milorad Lazic, George Washington University
“Historical Interpretation of World War Two in Serbia in the Context of the Yugoslav Wars, 1991-1999”
Roundtable: Memories of Japanese American Incarceration
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Moderator: Mae Ngai, Columbia University
Eric L. Muller, University of North Carolina School of Law
Franklin Odo, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program
Fred Katayama, Reuters
Madeleine Sugimoto, Former internee
- An exhibit of Colors of Confinement , a topic of the roundtable, will open at the gallery of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia on Monday, Dec.7
COFFEE BREAK 3:00pm-3:30pm
FOURTH SESSION: 3:30pm-5:00pm
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Gender and the Memory of Trauma
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Panel Chair: Yasmine Ergas, Columbia University
Jill Stockwell, Swinburne Institute for Social Research
“Affect: Deepening the Discussion about Reconciling the Past”
Maram Masarwi, Al Qasemi College of Education/David Yellin College, Israel
“The politics of memory and commemoration among bereaved Palestinian parents who lost their children in Al-Aqsa Intifada”
Elizabeth Manley, Xavier University
“The Myth of the Two Minervas: Deconstructing the Historical Martyr/Murderer Dichotomy to Confront the Legacies of Dictatorship”
Violence and Victimhood in Narrative and Film
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 918
Panel Chair: Barbara Estrin, Stonehill College
Mary Grace R. Concepcion, National University of Singapore, Singapore
“Memories of Military Rule: Philippine Martial Law Autobiographies as Catharsis and Commemoration”
Philip Johnson, The Graduate Center – City University of New York
“Fear and Loathing in Guantánamo: Violence and Victimhood in the Memoirs of Camp Personnel”
Esin Paca-Cengiz, Kadir Has University, Turkey
“Exploring Contested Pasts in Films”
Maheen Ahmed, Ghent University, Belgium
“Recreating Memories of the Great War in Comics”
Remembering Srebrenica
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 404
Panel Chair: Nidzara Ahmetasevic, Columbia University
Nena Mocnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Ethics and Aesthetics of Docu-Art Discourse at the 20th Anniversary Commemoration of Srebrenica Genocide”
Jared Bell, Nova Southeastern University/Advocates for Human Dignity
“The Struggle to Define Genocide: Exploring Post-Conflict Narratives 20 Years After Srebrenica”
Carlos Yebra López, New York University
“The Massacre of Srebrenica and the Dialectics of Centaur Politics”
Koen Kluessien, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Netherlands
“Dynamics of Denial: Serbian Politicians and the Denial of the Srebrenica Genocide”
Questions of Identity Politics and Ethnicity in Rwanda
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 405
Panel Chair: Carla De Ycaza, New York University
Nicasius Achu Check, Africa Institute of South Africa, South Africa
“On the Re-imaging of the ethnic divide in Rwanda: An Individual and Collective Memory Approach”
Bennett J. Collins, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
“Am I Twa or ‘HMP’?: Examining the Identity Politics of the Twa of Rwanda and the Implications of the ‘Historically Marginalized People’ Label”
Valerie Hebert, Lakehead University Orillia, Canada
“National Identity and the Memory of Atrocity: Genocide in State Building from Israel to Rwanda”
COFFEE BREAK, 5:00pm-5:30pm
KEYNOTE PANEL: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Location: International Affairs Building 417
Measures of Justice: Impact Assessment, Outcome Metrics, and Empirical Analysis
Moderator: Alexander Karn, Colgate University
Panelists: Hugo van der Merwe, The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (Johannesburg, South Africa); Tricia Olsen, University of Denver / Korbel School of International Studies; David Backer, University of Maryland / College of William and Mary