History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Spaces of Memory

PANELS

Spectres of War and Revolution: Post-Cold War State Making

Modernity's Ruins: The Destruction of Old Prishtina, ca. 1950s, the Political Economy of Spatial Violence, and the Prehistory of "Warchitecture"
Andrew Herscher, University of Illinois-Champaign
The Role of National Memory in the Breakdown of the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia
Marcel Tomasek, Masaryk University
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Imre Nagy and the Unsettled Past: The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Hungary
Karl Benzinger, Rhode Island College
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Memory-Work and the Gulag: the Politics of Memory in the Russian Experience
Rachel Schroeder, University of Michigan
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Commentator: Andrew Arato, New School

9.00 - 10.50 AM

<Wolff Conference Room>

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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