History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Spaces of Memory

PANELS

Erasure, Effacements, and Literalizations: Contentions of Modernity

"Business as Usual": the 1920 Wall Street Explosion and the Politics of Forgetting
Beverly Gage, Columbia University
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The Chaos Factor: Geography, Systematicity, and Space in Ghetto Guatemala, 1944-1960
John Thomas Way, Yale University
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Reflections on Human Rights and Collective Memory in Mexico: The Aguas Blancas Massacre-
Marisol Lopez-Menendez, New School
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The Haunted Elevator and Triangle: Memory, Protests, and the Transformation of the Two Public Landscapes in Bangkok after the Siamese Revolution
Keerati Chenpitayaton, New School

Commentator: Joseph Varga, New School

2.00 - 3.50 PM

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THE 7th ANNUAL COMMITTEE ON HISTORICAL STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR WORKING CLASS HISTORY JOURNAL JOINT CONFERENCE

	INTRODUCTION SCHEDULE <PANELS:> Sacred Space, Ritual, and Narratives of Resistance The Politics of Memory in States of Emergency Imagined Communities and Remembered Violence: Foundations of the Nation Memory, Meaning, and the Body: Social-Medical Implications Spectures of War and Revolution: Post-Cold War State Making Painting Outside the Spaces: New Approaches to Old Problems Re-Memebering the Dead: Constructing Family, Community, and the State Inscribing the Body: The Corporeal Aspects of Fragmentation How to Do Things with Media: Transmissions and Representations Architectures, Remembrances, and Public Spaces: Cities and Rententions Erasure, Effecements, and Liberalizations: Contentions of Memory The Nation Remembers: The Problematic of Collective Memory and National Identity ...And Justice for all: Negations, Legalities and Racial Violence Urban Prosthetics: Cities, Objects, and Narratives of Identity KEYNOTE SPEAKERS CONTACT
		GRADUATE FACULTY OF POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH APRIL 23-24, 2004
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