Remembering Historical Violence Symposium
Remembering Historical Violence Symposium
Please join us for a day of interdisciplinary reflection and conversation on the theme of global atrocity commemoration. This symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, and activists, who will present on the remembrance of mass violence from a diverse range of perspectives, drawing on a variety of regional cases. Through thoughtful, comparative discussion, this event aims to raise awareness of the longer-term and intergenerational legacies of atrocity, foster empathy for those affected by political violence in the present day, and build solidarity across different communities.
We also warmly invite you to attend our Pre-Symposium Film Screening and Discussion of Bisbee '17 on Friday, April 17.
The Remembering Historical Violence Symposium has been organized by Siv B. Lie (Music) and Erin Mosely (History) with funding from the College of Arts and Humanities.
SCHEDULE:
Sat, Apr 18
H.J. Patterson Hall, Rooms 2124 & 2130
8-8:45am: Breakfast
8:45-9am: Opening remarks by symposium co-conveners Siv Lie and Erin Mosely, University of Maryland
9-10:15am: Divided Memories: Identity, Remembrance, and Reconciliation
- Karina V. Korostelina, George Mason University, “Memory Sites within Unfinished Reconciliation between Japan and South Korea”
- Gul Gur, American University, “Selective Remembering and the Limits of Reconciliation: Memory, Silencing, and Moral Boundaries in Post-Conflict Cyprus”
- Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod, American University, “Private Commemoration: How Rwandans in the Diaspora Remember the 1994 Atrocities”
10:15-10:30am: Break
10:30-11:45am: The Arts of Commemoration: Film, Performance, and Literature
- Laurah Perrin, Georgetown, University, “Daughters of the Dust: Refashioning Diasporic Storytelling and Black Feminist Cinema”
- Brenda Werth, American University, “Stunt Doubles: Perilous Choreographies of Survival in Lola Arias’s Documentary Performance”
- Valerie K. Orlando, University of Maryland, “Haunted Screens, Buried Pages: Cinematic and Literary Reckonings with Algeria's Revolution (1954-1962) and Civil War (1992-2005)”
11:45am-12:45pm: Keynote by Petra Gelbart, Romani scholar, musician, curator, and activist (Title TBD)
12:45-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-3:15pm: Between Memory and Oblivion: Remembering Against the State
- Mohammed Ademo, University of Maryland, “Singing the Silence: Oromo Musicians as Memory Agents and the Remembrance of Historical Violence in Ethiopia”
- José M. Naharro-Calderón, University of Maryland, “What Can We Learn from the 1936 Spanish Civil War and Francoist Legacies of Violence Ninety Years Later?”
- Ana Patricia Rodríguez, University of Maryland, “Remembering the Massacre at El Mozote (El Salvador): From Memorials to New Media”
- Elena Vozmishcheva, George Washington University, “Flowers Against the Stone: The Politics of Commemoration and Counter-Memory in Contemporary Russia”
3:15-3:30pm: Break
3:30-3:45pm: Poem recitation by Fatemeh Keshavarz, University of Maryland
3:45-5pm: Memory Activism, Protest, and Pedagogy
- Sandrine Mugenga Irankunda, Johns Hopkins University, “Resisting Memoricide: Memory Reconstruction after Genocide”
- Marjorie Justine Cruz Antonio, University of Maryland, “People Power @ 40: How the Filipino People Ousted a Dictator”
- Piotr Kosicki, University of Maryland, discussion of UMD-Kyiv "global classroom" course on contested borders and memory-making during times of war (Title TBD)
5-5:15pm: Break
5:15-6:15pm: Keynote by Amy Sodaro, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, “Exhibiting Atrocity: Remembering Historical Violence in Memorial Museums”