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Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany The Possibilities of (Re)conciliation: the Legalisation of Justice 12-13 November, 2009 Organisers: Zerrin Ozlem Biner, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany Sharika Thiranagama, New School for Social Research, New York, USA Preliminary Programme Wednesday, 11th November 19:00 Informal Get-together at Café ‘Zimmer frei’ Thursday, 12th November 10:00 – 10:30 Registration 10:30 – 10:50 Welcome and Introduction Julia Eckert MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany and University of Bern, Switzerland Zerrin Ozlem Biner MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany Sharika Thiranagama New School for Social Research, New York, USA PANEL1 Memory, Reconciliation and Justice: imagined identities and foreclosed futures Chair: Franz von Benda-Beckmann, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany Discussant: Jane Cowan, University of Sussex, UK 10:50 – 11:15 Fadjar I. Thufail MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany Remembering Trauma, Recognizing Victim: legal process, state sovereignty and figures of reconciliation after the May 1998 riots in Indonesia 11:15 – 11:40 Aitzpea Leizaola University of the Basque Country, Spain Disturbing Bodies, Disturbing Memories: present debates over justice and reparation in the context of the Spanish Civil War 11:40 – 12:05 Diana Allan Harvard University, USA Reconciling the Politics of Remembrance: commemorating Nakba among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon 12:05 – 13:15 Commentary by Jane Cowan and general discussion 13:15 – 14:15 Lunch Break PANEL 2 Exploration on the Tools of Peace and Reconciliation Processes: law, ethics and the politics of truth Chair: Brian Donahoe, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany Discussant: Julia Eckert, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany and University of Bern, Switzerland 14:15 – 14:40 Isaias Rojas-Perez Johns Hopkins University, USA Law, Transitional Justice and National Reconciliation in Post-war Peru 14:40 – 15:05 Bertram Turner MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany Between the Justice of God and the Justice of the State: normative political framings of Morocco’s truth and reconciliation commission and its local reverberations 15:05 – 15:25 Discussion 15:25 – 15:45 Coffee Break 15:45 – 16:10 Yael Navaro-Yashin University of Cambridge, UK Pacifist Devices: the human/technology interface in the field of ‘conflict resolution’ 16:10 – 16:35 Jennifer Burrell University at Albany SUNY, USA Remains of the Day: forensic anthropology and human rights investigations in peace and reconciliation processes 16:35 – 16:55 Discussion 16:55 Commentary by Julia Eckert and general discussion 19:00 Dinner at Restaurant ‘Delphi’ Friday, 13th November Panel 3 Reconciling with the State? Limits of justice between global discourses of rights and local imaginaries of violence Chair: Lale Yalçin-Heckmann, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Grmany Discussant: Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany 10:00 – 10:25 Mariane C. Ferme University of California at Berkeley, USA Transitioning to what: post-conflict mechanism of justice and reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Rwanda 10:25 – 10:50 Kamari Maxine Clarke Yale University, USA Rethinking Africa through its Exclusions: the politics of naming criminal responsibility 10:50 – 11:10 Discussion 11:10 – 11:25 Coffee Break 11:25 – 11:50 Zerrin Ozlem Biner Coming to Terms with the ‘Unnamed Conflict’: the logic of reconciliation between the right to compensation and the right to justice in Turkey 11:50 – 12:15 Stef Jansen Manchester University, UK Reconciliation, Mutual Recognition and the Future in Bosnia-Herzegovina 12:15 – 12:40 Sharika Thiranagama New School for Social Research, New York, USA ‘Can what is broken be put back together again?’ Northern Muslims and Tamils in Sri Lanka 12:40 – 13:20 Discussion 13:20 –14:20 Lunch Break 14:20 – 15:20 Commentary by Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and general discussion 15:20 – 15:45 Coffee Break 15:45 Roundtable discussion 19:00 Lunch at Restaurant ‘Alchimistenklause’
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