History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Spaces of Memory

PANELS

Re-Membering the Dead: Constructing Family, Community, and the State

Excavating Sites of Memory: An Old Family Story of Frontier Violence
Andie Turcher, Columbia University
The Death of Michael Farmer: Murder, Media, and New York Neighborhoods in the Fifties
Robert Snyder, Rutgers University
Mo(u)rning in America: Reagan, Bitburg, and the Rights of Memory
Tim Raphael, Rutgers University
Executions Ideal and Real: Nineteenth Century Perspectives in Public Executions in China -
Kathleen Poling, University of California-Berkeley
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Commentator: Frank Adloff, New School

11.00 - 12.50 AM

<Room 215>

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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