SCHEDULE
Tentative Schedule
Saturday
April 24th
8:00 - 9:00
- Welcoming, Coffee and Bagels
9:00 - 10:50
Memory, Meaning, and the Body: Social Medical Implications
Room 215
- Genealogy as Social Memory: Making the Public Personal
Karla Hackstaff, Northern Arizona University
- A Foucauldian Interpretation of Genetico-Medicine
as an Invisibility Visibility
Neslihan Cevik, Arizona State University
- Battle Tactics of False Memory Syndrome Foundation
in the "Memory Wars"
Noel Packard, New School
- "Safe Space" and Contested Memories:
Survivor Movements and the use of Space and Time in Conflict
Thomas DeGloma, Rutgers University
Commentator: TBA
Spectres of War and Revolution: Post-Cold
War State Making
Wolff Conference Room
- 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
- Imre Nagy and the Unsettled Past: The Politics
of Memory in Contemporary Hungary
Karl Benzinger, Rhode Island College
- Memory-Work and the Gulag: the Politics of Memory
in the Russian Experience
Rachel Schroeder, University of Michigan
Commentator: Andrew Arato, New School
Painting Outside the Spaces: New Approaches
to Old Problems
Machinist Conference Room
- Witness Testimony and its Ethical Relation to History
Jennifer Scuro, Fordham University
- Matters Material: On the Meaning of Houses and
the Things Inside Them
Shelley Hornstein, York University
- The Land Still Claims Us: On the Psychopolitical
Dynamics of the American Dream
Adam Rosen, New School
- Traces of the Stillborne The Governance of the
Rule of Social Law
Richard Weiner, Rhode Island College
Commentator: Oz Frankel, New School
11:00 - 12:50
Re-Membering the Dead: Constructing Family, Community,
and the State
Machinist Conference Room
- 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
Commentator: Frank Adloff, New School
Inscribing the Body: The Corporeal Aspects
of Fragmentation
Wolff Conference Room
- Between Minority Consciousness, Mass Culture, Hope
and Despair: A Tentative Theoretical Exploration Mediated Bodies in Communication
and Community
Chris Smith and Malini Cadambi, New School
- Violence and Defiant Bodies
Greg Goldberg and Craig Willse, City University of New York
- Violent Seductions: The Mnemonics of the Body in
Post-Apartheid South Africa
Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University
- Testimony of the Body: Negotiating Silence in San
Francisco Jail Number 8
Elizabeth Spackman, University of Iowa
Commentator: TBA
How to Do Things with Media: Transmissions
and Representations
Room 215
- The Everyday Production of the Social Order and
the Historical Narration of Late Capitalism
Ivan Zatz-Diaz, City University of New York
- Constellations of Home: Korean Adoptees Making
Place and Writing "Home" in Cyberspace
Sonjia Hyon, University of Minnesota
- History and Memory: Visual Media and the Japanese
American Internment in World War II
Deirdre Boyle, New School
Commentator: Stevphen Shukaitis, New
School
Architectures, Rememberances, and Public Space: Cities
and Rententions
CEPA Conference Room
- Controlling New York's Bonus Plazas
Gregory Smithsimon, Columbia University
- Enacting the City / Remembering the Nation: Postwar
Reconstruction of Warsaw
David Snyder, Princeton University
- Everywhere But the Ground: the Spatial Politics
of Memory in Cape Town and New York City
Steve Theberge, Columbia University
Commentator: Vyjayanthi Rao, New School
1:00 - 2:00 PM
2:00 - 3:50
Erasure, Effacements, and Literalizations: Contentions
of Modernity
Room 215
- "Business as Usual": the 1920 Wall Street
Explosion and the Politics of Forgetting
Beverly Gage, Columbia University
- The Chaos Factor: Geography, Systematicity, and
Space in Ghetto Guatemala, 1944-1960
John Thomas Way, Yale University
- Reflections on Human Rights and Collective Memory
in Mexico: The Aguas Blancas Massacre-
Marisol Lopez-Menendez, New School
- 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
The Nation Remembers: The Problematic of Collective
Memory and National Identity
CEPA Conference Room
- A Site of Memory for the Italian Republic: The
Ardeantine Caves Memorial in Rome (1944-2004)
Guri Schwarz, University of Bologna
- Archaeology and Symbolic Violence in Modern Greece
Despina Lalaki, New School
- National Memory and Moral Catastrophe
Ross Poole, Macquarie University
- Competing Narratives in Commemorative Sites: Earthquake,
Massacre, and Commemoration of Violence in the Japanese Empire, 1923
Jin-hee Lee, University of Illinois-Champaign
Commentator: Alex Cuc, New School
. . . . And Justice for All: Negations,
Legalities and Racial Violence
Wolff Conference Room
Urban Prosthetics: Cities, Objects, and Narratives
of Identity
Machinist Conference Room
- Documenting Art: The Central American Diaspora
in Los Angeles
Ester Hernandez, California State University Los Angeles
- Structures and Spaces: The Reform of Practices
in Early Mexican Public Spaces
Cristina Cielo, University of California-Berkeley
- Remembering Violence, Enforcing Spatial/Narrative
Compliance: The Construction of 'Safe" Spatial Practice in the Divided
City
Karen Lysaght, Dublin Institute of Technology
Commentator: Jennifer Scuro, New School
and Fordham University
4:00 - 5:30
Keynote Address:
Swayduck Auditorium
- The Elephant in the Room: Towards a Sociology of
Denial
Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University
Commentary and Discussion with:
Eli Zaretsky and Sarah Daynes, New School
6:00 PM
- Reception in Wolff
Conference Room
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