History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Spaces of Memory

SCHEDULE

Tentative Schedule

Friday April 23rd

4:00 - 5:50 PM

Sacred Space, Ritual, and Narratives of Resistance
Machinist Conference Room

Fences and Piers: A Disappearing Queer Space in Manhattan
Benjamin Shepard, Columbia University
Sanctification and Commodification in Mangwltong Cemetery in
Gwanju
George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Resistance Between the Lines: Popular Music and Dictatorship in Brazil in Uruguay
Denise Milstein, Columbia University
Reclaiming the Holidays: Celebration, Memorial, and the Creating of Temporal Boundaries
Stevphen Shukaitis, New School

Commentator: Sarah Daynes, New School

The Politics of Memory in States of Emergency
Wolff Conference Room

Martyr Funerals and the Ritual Contestation of Political Death in Palestine
Lori Allen, University of Chicago
Muslim Routes: Memory, Desire, and the Politics of Knowledge
Zareena Grewal, University of Michigan
Absent Movements and Appropriated Memory Places: Palestinian Commemorative Spaces in Lebanon
Laleh Khalili, Columbia University
Contesting the State: The History of a Massacre Memorial
Lucia Volk, San Francisco University

Commentator: Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University (tentative)

Imagined Communities and Remembered Violence: Foundations of the Nation
Room 215

The Crossroads of History and Memory: Histories of Collaboration and Narratives of Resistance in Post Colonial South Korea
Kathryn Boodry, New School
The Construction of Israeli Collective Memory of the Holocaust in the Formative Years of Israel
Michal Aharony, New School
Gunter Grass and the German Collective Memory*
Jaroslava Gajdosova, New School
Rape and Collective Memory
Adhimoolam Vetrievel Murugan, New School

Commentator: Pradeep Jeganathan, New School

6:00-8:00 PM

Opening Plenary:
Swayduck Auditorium

Spaces of Surrender
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swathmore College

Commentary and Roundtable Discussion with:
Jeffrey Goldfarb and Vera Zolberg, New School

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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