Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 to Friday, December 14th, 2012
The conference will take place on the fourth floor of the International Affairs Building (Rooms: 402B, 409 and 418, unless otherwise indicated) at Columbia University, located at 118th Street and Amsterdam.
Historical dialogue and accountability is a growing field of advocacy and scholarship that encompasses the efforts in conflict, post-conflict, and post-dictatorial societies to come to terms with their pasts. Historical dialogue seeks to provide analysis of past violence grounded in empirical research; to acknowledge the victims of past violence and human rights abuses; to challenge and deconstruct national, religious, or ethnic memories of heroism and/or victimhood; to foster shared work between interlocutors of two or more sides of a conflict; to identify and monitor how history is misused to divide society and perpetuate conflict; and to enhance public discussion about the past.
This conference seeks to consider related questions, in addition to discussing the state of the relatively new field of historical dialogue and its relationship to other discourses such as transitional justice, memory studies, oral history, historical redress and religious studies. We will address the possibilities and limits of these concepts and methods, searching for unexplored connections and elaborating upon how historical analysis can be used to resolve long-standing sectarian conflicts.
An internationally diverse group of presenters will participate in panels covering a wide range of regional and thematic topics, including:
Local Memory, Global Relations: China, Japan, Korea
Visual Representation and Exhibits as Historical Dialogue
Teaching Controversy: Pedagogy and Contested Histories
The Historian in Dialogue
For a detailed schedule, please see below:
Conference Schedule
Tuesday, December 11, 2012, Columbia University
9:15-11:15????????? Plenary Session
| Plenary Session Day 1 | |
| Daqing Yang (George Washington University) ?From Europe to Asia? Historical Dialogue in Trans-Regional Perspective? | |
| Klaus Neumann (Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Melbourne, Australia) ?History, Memory, Justice? | |
| Katherine Hite (Vassar College) ?Empathic Unsettlement and the Outsider Within Argentine Spaces of Memory? | |
11:30-1:15????????? Session Two
Panel One:
| Sequestered History, Public History |
| Sarah Melton (Emory University) ?Toyi-Toying in Birmingham: A Public History of Apartheid and the Challenges of Global Human Rights Commemoration? |
| Douglas Cox (CUNY? LAW) ?Captured Documents, Sequestered History and Displaced Memory? |
| Philip Ethington and Cara Palmer (University of Southern California) ?The Civilian Casualty Justice Project: Internet Publishing of Public History to Generate Dialogue on Potential War Crimes Committed by the United States and Allied Powers during WWII? |
?Panel Two:
| Victims and Victimhood in Historical Dialogue |
| Kieran McEvoy (School of Law, Queens University,Belfast, Ireland) ?Victims, Politics and the Past; Voice, Agency and ?Innocence? in the Transition from Conflict? |
| Simon Robins (University of York, UK) ?Local Memory, National Politics and Global Agendas: History and Memory around Disappearance during Nepal?s Maoist Insurgency? |
| Ron Dudai (Sussex University, UK) ?Commemorating Rescuers: The Memory of Altruism and the Limitations of Human Rights? |
| Jhansirani Kannepamula, (Arts and Science College for Women, Hyderabad, India) ?Self-Consciousness of the Dalit-Madigasas ?Sub-subalterns?: Reflections on MadigaDandora Movement in South Asia? |
?Panel Three:
| History and Memory in Latin America |
| Nina Schneider (Columbia University) ?Writing and Post-Authoritarian Brazil: Dilemmas of a Historian? |
| Kaitlin McNally-Murphy (New York University) ?Envisioning Memory and History in Guzman?s Chile, Memoria Obstinada? |
| Joannie Jean (Quebec, Canada) ?Memory and Representation of the Past in Chile? |
?1:30-2:15?????????? Lunch
2:30-4:15?????????? Session Three
Panel One:
| Local Memory and Global Relations: China, Japan, Korea |
| Akiko Takenaka (University of Kentucky) ??Postmemorial Trauma?: The Revisionist Turn in Japan?s Memories of the Asia-Pacific War? |
| Steffen Rimner (Harvard University) ?On the Paradigm of National Humiliation: The Ethics of Memory and China?s Foreign Relations? |
| Gui-Young Hong (North Carolina) ?The Enduring Legacy of a Violent Historical Incident and Local Memory: From the ?April 3 Incident? to Naval Base Protests on Jeju Island? |
| Hyunah Yang (Seoul National University, Korea) ?The Cleavage Between Local Memory and the Global Law ? The Japanese Military Comfort Women Case? |
?Panel Two:
| Literature as Historical Dialogue |
| Teresa Longo (College of William & Mary) ?The Poetics of Advocacy:? Literature, Art and the Post-9/11 Imagination? |
| Majid Alavi and Nastaran Seyfinejad (Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran) ?Gender, Revenge and Trauma: A Comparative Study of Khaled Hosseini?sThe Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns? |
| Renana Keydar (Stanford University) ?Post-War Poetic Justice: Addressing War-Atrocities in Law and Literature? |
| Brenda Werth (American University) ?The Politics of Private Testimony and Public Commemoration: A Malvina Veteran?s Onstage Memoir? |
Panel Three:
| Remembering Genocide, ?Then and Now | |
| Alex Hinton (Rutgers University) ?Justice and Time: A View from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal? | |
| Fatma Ulgen (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) ??Staying Focused? with Ambassador Morgenthau, Plowing Seeds of Hatred? | |
| Anuradha Chakravarty (University of South Carolina) ?Historical Memory and the Middle Ground: Justice and State-Society Relations in Post-Genocide Rwanda? | |
?4:15-4:30?????????? Coffee Break
4:30-6:15?????????? Session Four
Panel One:
| History and Justice in Post-colonial Societies |
| Astrid Nonbo Andersen (Aarhus University, Denmark) ?Historical Dialogue and the Understanding of Slavery in the Danish West Indies? |
| Stephen Winter (University of Auckland, New Zealand) ?Historical or Transitional Justice? New Zealand?s Treaty of Waitangi Process? |
| Lara Fullenwider (Queen?s University, Kingston, Canada) ?Contrition and Commemoration in Canada: Educating the Archive with ?Where are the Children?? |
?Panel Two:
| Narrativity and Transitional Justice: the Case of Indonesia. Roundtable | |
| Alison Castel, Jale Sultanli, Sarah Federman (George Mason University) ?A Narrative Approach to Transitional Justice: 1965 Indonesia? | |
?Panel Three:
| Historical Dialogue, Transitional Justice and The Balkans |
| Ana Ljubojevic (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy) ?History in Crisis: Transitional justice and creation of narratives in Serbia and Croatia? |
| Mario Mazic (Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Zagreb, Croatia) ?Uncomfortable Truths: Remembering Croatia?s role in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina? |
| Sandra Orlovic (Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade, Serbia) ?Remembering Batajnica: Between History and Accountability in Serbia |
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Columbia University
?9:30-11:15???????? Session Five
Panel One:
| Memory and Memorialization in Eastern Africa | |
| Olakunle Folami (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Nigeria) ?Gender Oral Tradition and Conflict Renaissance between Modakeke and Ife Kingdom, Nigeria? | |
| Carla De Ycaza (New York University) and Nicole Fox (Brandeis University) ?Narratives of Mass Violence: The Role of Memory and Memorialization in Addressing Human Rights Violations in Post-Conflict Rwanda and Uganda? | |
| Ihediwa Nkemijika Chimee (University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria) ?The factors of reminiscence, common hate, and marginalization as correlates in evolving the memory and history of past violence: The case of the Igbo in Nigeria? |
Panel Two:
| The Historian in Dialogue |
| David Gaunt (S?dert?rn University, Stockholm, Sweden) ?The Role of the Historian in Historical Dialogues? |
| Ben Dorfman (Aalborg University, Denmark) ???whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts.? Rights, Dialogue and Historical Memory? |
| Juliane Tomann (Institute for Applied History, Berlin/Frankfurt (Oder), Germany) ?Applied History between Civil Society and Academia: A Case Study from the Polish-German Border? |
| Alexander Karn (Colgate University) ?How Historical Commissions Attempt to Navigate Between Competing Approaches to Justice? |
?11:30-1:15????????? Session Six
?Panel One:
| Truth and Reconciliation Commissions |
| Susan Shepler (American University) ?The Moment Sierra Leone?s TRC Report Became a Useful Political Object? |
| Proscovia Sv?rd (Mid Sweden University, Harnosand, Sweden) ?The Documentation of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Historical Narrative and Educative Tool? |
| Mark Malisa (College of St Rose, New York) ?Neither Truth(s) nor Reconciliation: Reflections on South Africa?s Truth and Reconciliation Commission? |
| Joanna Rice (University of Toronto, Canada) ?Truth, but at what cost: Assessing the Prospects of Truth-Seeking in Contemporary Nepal? |
?Panel Two:
| Indigenous Studies Roundtable | |
| Participants: Jane Anderson (University of Massachusetts); Valmaine Toki (via video conference) (University of Waikato, New Zealand); Robert Coulter (Indian Law Resource Center); Audra Simpson (Columbia University); Kenneth Deer (secretary of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawke in Canada); Lorie Graham (Suffolk Law School); Elsa Stamatopoulou (Columbia University). Moderator: Ulia Popova-Gosart (UCLA) | |
?Panel Three:
| Germany and Poland after WWII | |
| Agnieszka Dybowska (Warsaw University, Poland) ?How can non-traditional stakeholders become part of reconciliation? Non-State actors in Polish-German Historical Dialogue? | |
| Jolanta Steciuk (Young Journalists Association, Warsaw, Poland) ?Myth and memory: forced transfers of populations after WWII in Poland and neighboring countries? | |
| Richard Boffey (University of Leeds, UK) ?Germany between National Socialism and Communism? | |
| Amitai Touval (Baruch College) ?A Deposed Elite?s Response to Judgment and Its Premises? |
1:30-2:15?????????? Lunch
?2:30-4:15?????????? Session Seven
Panel One:
| Historical Dialogue and Conflict Negotiation in Israel and Palestine |
| Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch (Harvard University) ?Symbolic Reparations and Conflict Negotiation: A Pragmatic Approach? |
| Rafi Nets (Columbia University) ?The Impact of Pioneering Books on the Collective Memory of Conflicts: Israel and the 1948 Palestinian Exodus? |
| Smadar Lavie (UC Berkeley) ?Unspeakable Memories and the Denial of Agency: The Intergenerational Transmission of Bureaucratic Pain? |
?Panel Two:
| Religion and Memory in Historical Dialogue | |
| P.K. Basant (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India) ?Teaching Histories of Caste and Religion to Children: The Eklavya Experience? | |
| Michael Phillips (University of East London, UK) ?Walking on Water: Religion and Historical Dialogue in Spain and Australia? | |
| Mireno Berrettini (Universit? Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) ?Spanish Catholic Church and MemoriaHist?rica. ?Martyrs of XX Century? Between Beatification, Clerical Historiography and the Struggle for Memory? | |
| Rohit Dutta Roy (Jadavpur University, India) ?The Scripting of a National History: History-writing as a communal apparatus in Colonia India? | |
?Panel Three:
| The Politics of Memory in Transitional Indonesia | |
| Iben Trino-Molenkamp (Organization for Visual Progression, New York) ?Counter Memory: Resisting Dominant Historical Narratives through Local Memory and Visual Testimony on Violence and Trauma? | |
| Leslie Dwyer (George Mason University) ??Don?t Disturb the Peace?: Post-Conflict Memory Politics in Aceh, Indonesia? | |
| Kate McGregor (University of Melbourne, Australia) ?Moving from Historical Deadlock to Dialogue: A Case Study from Indonesia? |
?4:15-4:30?????????? Coffee Break
?4:30-6:15?????????? Session Eight
Panel One:
| Archives and Human Rights |
| Silvia Tandeciarz (College of William and Mary) and Carlos Osorio (National Security Archive) ?Researching Histories of Violence in ?Archives of Terror?: A Transnational Memory Project? |
| Betsy Konefal (College of William and Mary) ?Ethnicity and Opposition, Declassified: The Case of Guatemala? |
| Catherine Kennedy (The South African History Archive, Johannesburg, South Africa) |
?Panel Two:
| Hegemony and Memory in Turkey | |
| ?zg?r Sevgi G?ral (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) ?A New Battleground in the Kurdish Conflict: Constitution Making Processes? | |
| G?zde Burcu Ege (Turkey) ?On the Subversive Potential of Melancholic Attachment to a Troubled Past: Remembering Armenians in Van, Turkey? | |
| Andrea Karlsson (Lund University, Sweden) ?Making public, forming publics: Liberal intellectuals and the Armenian Genocide Debate in Contemporary Turkey? | |
| Murat Celikkan (Center for Truth, Memory and Justice, Istanbul, Turkey) ?Remembering the Disappeared: State Sanctioned Violence and the Kurdish Question in Turkey? |
?Panel Three:
| History, Transitional Justice, and the Aftermath of WWII | |
| Filipa Raimundo (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) and Paola Cesarini (Providence College) ?The Political Dimension of Transitional Justice after World War II? | |
| Sarah Spinner (New York University) ?Forgotten Precedents: History and Memory in the French Courts of Justice, 1944-1951? | |
| Alexis Herr, (Clark University) ?Between Perpetrator and Victim: Italy and the Role of Memory in WWII? |
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Thursday, December 13, 2012, Columbia University
?9:30-10:30???????? Session Nine
| Plenary Opening on GTMO in International Context |
| Elazar Barkan, Director, Columbia Institute for the Study of Human Rights |
| Eileen Gillooly, Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities |
| Liz Sevcenko, Director, Guant?namo Public Memory Project |
| Framing Speaker |
10:35-10:50?????? Coffee break
?11:00-12:45??????? Session Ten
Panel One:
| Teaching Controversy: Pedagogy and Contested Histories | |
| Cathlin Goulding (Teachers College, Columbia University) ?Living with Ghosts, Living Otherwise: A Study of History Curriculum in Post-Genocide Cambodia? | |
| Michelle Bellino (Harvard University) ?Education as a Mechanism of Transitional Justice: But What Kind of Story, What Kind of Stance?? | |
| Irena Stefoska, (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia) ?Education as Historical Dialogue: Creating a History Curriculum for Multi-Ethnic, Post-Conflict Macedonia? | |
| Alexandra Wood (New York University) ?Advocacy after the Apology: Educator-Activists and Redress for Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Confinement? |
?Panel Two:
| Visual Representation and Exhibits as Historical Dialogue |
| Melissa Geppert (Southern Oregon University) ?Favela Tem Mem?ria: History as Community Activism? |
| Kaoru Watanabe (Cambodian Association of Illinois/ Cambodian American Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial, Chicago, Illinois) ?Remembering the Killing Fields: Development of a Museum Exhibition as a Process of Healing? |
| Cynthia Scott, (Claremont Graduate University, California) ?Sharing the Divisions of the Colonial Past: An Assessment of the Netherlands-Indonesia Shared Cultural Heritage Project, 2003-2006? |
| Cynthia Milton (University of Montreal) ?Artistic Representations as Historical Clarification of Peru?s Internal Conflict? |
?Panel Three:
| Guantanam? in Historical Dialogue, Part One: Where is Guant?namo?? Locating the Legal Black Hole | |
| Student teams present work on digital mapping and history of built environment:? University of Massachusetts, Arizona State University | |
| Rooting GTMO in Caribbean context | |
| Jonathan Hansen (Harvard University). Guant?namo:? An American History |
?1:00-1:45?????????? Lunch
?2:00-3:45????????? Session Eleven
Panel One:
| The Burden of Memory in Post-Conflict Socities |
| Sarah Maddison (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) ?The Long Road to Conflict Transformation: The Role of Agonistic Dialogue in Divided Societies? |
| Cyril Adonis (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa) ??Getting the Crown without the Jewels?: Social Injustice and Its Implications for Memorialization in Post-Apartheid South Africa? |
| Bijoyeta Das (Guwahati, India) The Politics and Poetics of Wartime Trauma: Rape Victims in post-conflict Bangladesh |
| Prakash Kona (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India) ?Historicizing the Truth as Forgiveness: The Politics of Unconditional Love? |
?Panel Two:
| Narrative and Memory in South Asia |
| Saira Bano Orakzai (University of New England, Armidale, Australia), ??Bridging? as a Framework for Historical Dialogue Process: A Case Study of Tribal Areas of Pakistan? |
| Shubh Mathur (United States) ?Competing Narratives on the Kashmir Conflict: A Case for Meditation? |
| Jhuma Sen (National University of Singapore) ?Gendered Tales: Memory, Migration and Bengali Women? |
?Panel Three:
| Guantanam? in Historical Dialogue, Part Two: GTMO and American Empire | |
| Student teams present work on 1898 period and establishment of the lease (Rutgers); the Cold War (University of North Carolina at Greensboro); and oral histories of daily life for military families on the base (University of West Florida) | |
| Jana Lipman (Tulane University) Guant?namo:? A Working Class History Between Empire and Revolution | |
| A Military Perspective | |
| Esther Halmon, ?Testimony and commentary from the daughter of a Cuban worker? | |
| Diana Taylor, Struggles Over Public Memory and GTMO |
?4:00-4:30????????? Coffee Break
?Travel to NYU
?6:00-8:00? ???????
| Guant?namo Public Memory Project Exhibit Opening Reception, King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South |
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Friday, Dec 14:? King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York University
9:30-11:30???????? Session Twelve:
| Guant?namo in Historical Dialogue, Part Three: Safe Haven or Prison Camp?? GTMO and immigration policy | |
| Guant?namo Public Memory Project student teams present oral histories and multimedia work on Cuban and Haitian refugee experiences at GTMO:? Brown University, New York University, Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis | |
| Commentator:? Aurora di Armendi, balsera, artist, and instructor, Parsons School of Design | |
| Commentator:? Jocelyn McCalla, founder, National Coalition for Haitian Refugees | |
| Commentator:? Holly Ackerman, Librarian for Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies, Duke University |
11:30-12:30??????? Lunch
12:30-2:30???????? Session Thirteen:?
| Guant?namo in Historical Dialogue, Part Four: National Security?s New Paradigm:? Confronting the post-911 past |
| Guant?namo Public Memory Project student teams present multimedia work on GTMO after 9-11 (University of California Riverside, Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis) |
| National Security Program, ACLU |
| Peter Honingsburg, Project Founder and Director, ?Witness to Guant?namo, University of San Francisco Law School |
2:45-4:45????????? Session Fourteen:?
| Guantanamo in Historical Dialogue, Part Five: Can we ?close Guant?namo??? Alternative visions for GTMO?s future | |
| Guant?namo Publice Memory Project student teams present work on how GTMO has been closed before and what?s being imagined and built at GTMO today (University of Minnesota) | |
| Closing Commentator:? Karen Greenberg, Director, Center for National Security, Fordham Law School |
5:00-5:30????????? Closing
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