Newsletter 52 - Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory

Dialogues on Historical Justice
and Memory Network News
Newsletter No. 52
March 26, 2015
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Announcements
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Engaging Survivors: Assessing ‘Testimony’ and ‘Trauma’ as Foundational Concepts
Henry Greenspan, Sara R. Horowitz, Éva Kovács, Berel Lang, Dori Laub, Kenneth Waltzer & Annette Wieviorka,
Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust 28:3 (2014) 190-226.
The International Criminal Court and the End of Impunity in Kenya
Lionel Nichols, Springer Series in Transitional Justice, 2015.
Reordering of Meaningful Worlds: Memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent
Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Yuliya Yurchuk, Stockholm Studies in History 103, 2015.
Cultures of Denial. Comparing Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Denial
Maria Karlsson, Lund University Publications, 2015.
In the Forge of Stalin: Swedish Colonists of Ukraine in Totalitarian Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Andrej Kotljarchuk, Stockholm Studies in History 100, 2014.
Women and Transitional Justice: Progress and Persistent Challenges in Retributive and Restorative Processes
Mayesha Alam, Palgrave Pilot, 2014.
Other
Request for information about best practices in the field of historical dialogue
Contact: dialogues@columbia.edu
Database of Researchers in Historical Dialogue, Transitional Justice and Memory
Contact: historicaljustice@swin.edu.au
Final Report of the Kenyan TJRC
Radio documentary: “Argentina: haunted by memories,” Dr. Jill Stockwell.
Issue brief, “Presidential Elections in Turkey: Erdogan's "New Turkey" and "New Challenges",” American Institute for
Contemporary German Studies
Book Reviews
Books for Review
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Karine Vanthuyne, La présence d'un passé de violences. Mémoires et identités autochtones dans le
Guatemala de l’après-génocide. Presses de l'Université Laval, 2014.
Book Reviews
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Rebecca Clifford’s review of Marie Louise Seeberg, Irene Levin, and Claudia Lenz (eds.)(2013). The
Holocaust as Active Memory: The Past in the Present. Recent studies in this Holocaust memory suggest an
important shift in focus.
Events
Women Mobilizing Memory: Keywords
A Collaborative Graduate Student Roundtable
Date: March 30, 2015, 6-8 pm
Location: Faculty House, Columbia University, New York, NY
Transitional Justice and Human Rights Crisis in Sri Lanka
Date: March 30, 2015, 19.15-20.30
Location: Sal IX, Universitetshuset, Uppsala University
Transitional Justice and Human Rights Writers Workshop
Date: March 31, 2015, 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Location: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ), NYU School of Law, WILF Hall 5th Floor, 139
MacDougal Street, New York, NY
Is It Possible to Do Justice in Guatemala?
Date: April 1, 2015, 12:30-2:00pm
Location: Open Society Foundations–New York
Post-Conflict in the Balkans: Where Are We 20 Years after Dayton?
Dates: April 2-3, 2015
Location: Ulcinj, Montenegro
On Trauma, Empathy, and Resilience: A Workshop for Students Researching and Studying Traumatic Events
Date: April 2, 2015
Location: Stanford Women’s Center, Stanford University, CA
Book Discussion with David Scott on Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
Date: April 6, 2015 5-7 pm
Location: 754 Schemerhorn, Columbia University, New York
Selected chapters will be pre-circulated, although we encourage you to read the entire book if possible.
The Right to Have Rights: Citizenship Culture and the Future of Cities
Date: April 6, 2015 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Location: Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Child Soldiers: Prevention and Protection
Date: April 8, 2015, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: New York City Bar, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
Graduate Student Conference, “Converging Narratives: The Personal Meets the National”
Dates: April 10-11, 2015
Location: University of Illinois at Chicago
Peace without prosecutions. How the amnesty stabilised postwar Angola
TJI Seminar Series, Dr. Ingrid Samset
Date: April 15, 2015 12.30pm – 2pm
Location: Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, Dalriada House, Jordanstown campus
Narrative, Power and Commemoration in Conflicted Societies
Date: April 27, 2015 (9.45-5.00pm)
Location: Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, Belfast Campus, York Street
The Vietnam War Then and Now: Assessing the Critical Lessons
Dates: April 29-May 1, 2015
Location: NYU Center in Washington, D.C.
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Socio-economic rights in times of transition
Date: April 30, 2015
Location: Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, Ulster Hall, Belfast
Healing communities, transforming society: Exploring the interconnectedness between psycho-social needs, practice
and peacebuilding
Dates: May 6-8, 2015
Location: Sunnyside Park Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa
Academic Workshop: Armenian Genocide - Reflections and Comparisons
Date: May 8, 2015
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX. Council Room, Torrington Square main entrance
Why are we obsessed with the Nazis? The Third Reich in History and Memory: Richard Evans and Ian Kershaw in
conversation with Nikolaus Wachsmann
Date: May 12, 2015
Location: Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
Trauma on the Eastern Front: European Jews and the First World War
Date: May 21, 2015
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, Room B33, Torrington Square main entrance
Gender, Memory and Genocide: An International Conference Marking 100 Years Since the Armenian Genocide
Dates: June 4-6, 2015
Location: The Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
Judging the Past in a Post Cold-War World
Dates: September 28 - 30, 2015
Location: HRC Conference Room Bldg # 14, ANU, Canberra, Australia
Opportunities
CFP: Workshop on Research at German Memorial Sites and Documentation Centers on the History of National
Socialism and the Holocaust
Deadline: March 23, 2015
CFA: Senior Advisor (consultancy position), Peace Direct USA
Deadline: March 27, 2015
CFA: Consultancy Opportunity: Rapid desk review of the civil society landscape in Central and West Africa
Deadline: March 27, 2015
CFA: 2015 Leitner Center Summer Fellows Program
Deadline: March 27, 2015
CFA: Deputy Regional Director, Campaigns: Amnesty International (Dakar, Senegal)
Deadline: March 29, 2015
CFP: Conference 'Encountering Perpetrators', Winchester 1-3 September 2015
Deadline: March 31, 2015
CFA: Program Officer, Electoral Processes: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Deadline: March 31, 2015
CFA: Executive Director: California Against Slavery (San Diego, CA)
Deadline: March 31, 2015
CFA: Uppsala Forum Visiting Fellows Program
Deadline: March 31, 2015
CFA: Hidden Genocides: Overshadowed by the Holocaust, University of Amsterdam
Deadline: April 1, 2015
CFA: Program Manager, Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative: Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (New York)
Deadline: April 2, 2015
CFA: Program Manager, Burma: International Women's Development Agency (Melbourne, Australia)
Deadline: April 6, 2015
CFA: Cultural Memory Training in Berlin
Deadline: April 6, 2015
CFA: Clinical Legal Education Expert, Egypt: American Bar Association, Rule of Law Initiative (Egypt)
Deadline: April 8, 2015
CFA: PostDoc and PhD position, Leibniz Graduate School- "History, Knowledge, Media in East Central Europe"
Deadline: April 10, 2015
CFA: 2015 Asia Law and Justice Fellowship, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Deadline: April 13, 2015
CFA: RNHDP Summer Training Program Call for Applications (June 8-17, 2015-Istanbul)
Deadline: April 13, 2015
CFA: Harry & Helen Gray/AICGS Reconciliation Fellowship
Deadline: April 15, 2015
CFA: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) - Project Officer - ACTS Faculty
Deadline: April 15, 2015
CFP: Symposium: Islam & Conflict Transformation, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
Deadline: April 15, 2015
CFA: 9/11 Memorial Museum Mellon Foundation Fellowships
Deadline: April 17, 2015
CFA: 2015 Global Prize for Transformative Social Justice Leadership
Deadline: April 17, 2015
CFA: 2015 Women PeaceMakers Program, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego
Women PeaceMaker Application Deadline: April 20, 2015
Peace Writer Application Deadline: April 24, 2015
CFP: PhD Symposium “Human Rights and the Mobilization of Testimony”
Deadline: April 24, 2015
CFA: Chief of Gender Affairs Division, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: United Nations
(Santiago, Chile)
Deadline: April 28, 2015
CFA: AJS Women's Caucus 2015 Prizes
Deadline: April 30, 2015
CFP: Bearing Witness More Than Once. How Institutions, Media and Time Shape Shoah Survivors' Testimonies
Deadline: May 15, 2015
CFA: Southern Jewish Historical Society Grants
Deadline: June 15, 2015
CFP: Symposium: The Impact of Drones on the Human Right to Peace, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
Deadline: July 15, 2015
CFA: Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame
Deadline: Rolling
CFA: Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Peace Studies, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame
Deadline: Rolling
CFA: Job: Manager- Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, Partners for Democratic Change
Deadline: Rolling
CFP: Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network Working Paper (WP) Series
Deadline: Rolling
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