Workshop on History and Theory of Violence in the 20th Century: Emergence.
Experience. Remembrance.
Collective Violence: Emergence. Experience. Remembrance.
26.09.2007-30.09.2007,
Sarajevo/ Bosnien und Herzegowina
Organizer: Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research im
Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut, Essen, in Zusammenarbeit mit der
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Sarajevo/ Bosnien und Herzegowina.
Tobias Bütow, Michaela Christ, Christian Gudehus, Veronika Springmann.
Funded by: Gemeinnützige Hertie Stiftung, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung,
Sarajevo, Hans Böckler Stiftung and Köhler Stiftung im Stifterverband für
die deutsche Wissenschaft.
There has been an upsurge of new research on the escalation of violence
and mass murder in National Socialism in the past two decades, expanding
our knowledge of the period tremendously. Explanatory models, terminology,
sources, research methods and narrations are numerous and differentiated.
The same is true of research on the transmission and discourse of memory
and the forms memories of violent crimes in National Socialism can take.
There have also been many, albeit less numerous, new studies of other
cases of collective violence, for example in former Yugoslavia and in
Rwanda. The comparative study of processes of collective violence however,
including the study of the cultural and psychological consequences of
violence, is still in its infancy. The subjects of this research are
extensive and complex, making comparativ study very demanding. This
complexity often leads comparative study to be written off directly as
unprofitable. In practice however current comparative (violence) research,
particularly genocide research proves the theoretical and practical
benefits comparative study can bring. Often, the particularities and
commonalities of genocidal processes only become clear in the process of
comparison. Research from other disciplines and other countries on other
areas and epochs can widen our perspective and expand our knowledge.
This meeting aims to initiate a forum for a next generation of researchers
studying the processes of collective violence. The purpose is to gather
the understanding of violence which has been gained by researchers from
all parts of the world working in different disciplines.
Collective violence is a complex and global phenomena. Research on
collective violence should be the same.
* Wednesday, September 26
14.00 (Optional)Guided city tour, ERICH RATHFELDER, war correspondent of
the German newspaper “die tageszeitung”
20.00 OPENINGWENDY LOWER (Maryland/ USA)Possibilities and pitfalls of
comparative violence research - case studies of Eastern Europe Thursday,
September 27
8.30 INTRODUCTION 9.00-10.45 EXPLAINIG VIOLENCE: THEORIES DORIS GOEDL
(Salzburg/ Austria)
About the absence of violence: Non-violent and violent system changes
ELISSA MAILAENDER KOSLOV (Paris/ France)Power relations, violence, and
cruelty: a new perspective on perpetrators and Nazi concentration camps
11.15-13.00 CREATING VIOLENCE: DISCOURSES CARL BETHKE (Berlin/
Germany)Does history repeat? The Second World War and the war in Bosnia
1992-1995
STANISLAS BIGIRIMANA (Mutare/ Zimbabwe)The fraternal twins in war:
Exploring the narratives that shape the ethnic consciousness of the Hutu
and the Tutsi of Burundi and Rwanda leading to the “Rationalisation of
collective violence”
13.00 Lunch
15.15-17.00 DOING VIOLENCE: DYNAMICS FRANK WOLFF (Cologne/ Germany)From
Odessa to Kielce? Comparing pogroms and anti-Jewish violence, 1881-1946
KAREN KRÜGER (Berlin/ Germany)„They are not different from us, they just
look different“: Colonial Stereotypes and the ethnic dimension of violence
in Rwanda 1994
18.00 Dinner
20.00 CINEMA AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE “We are all neighbours”, Norway 1993,
52 min. Director: Tone Bringa (Bergen/Norway).
Tone Bringa, anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, will be present for
a discussion after the screening.
Friday, September 28
EXCURSION to Srebrenica and Potocari
MERCED SMAILOVIC and ANNE BITTERBERG, Guided Tour and Lecture.
Saturday, September 29
9.00-10.45 WOMEN, MEN AND VIOLENCE:PERCEPTIONS, ROLES AND SUFFERINGS
DOREEN ESCHINGER (Budapest/ Hungary)
Women killing Women: Women Concentration Camps in national- socialistic
Germany and the Perception of the female Victim
OLIVERA SIMIC (Melbourne/ Australia)Gender side of Reconciliation: Women
in the Aftermath
11.15-13.00 REMEMBERING VIOLENCE (I): MEMORIALS NIKOLAI VUKOV (Sofia/
Bulgaria)The signs of violence and the violence of signs: memorials to
victims of mass atrocities in Eastern Europe after 1945
NADIA CAPUZZO DERKOVIC (Geneva/ Switzerland)(Non)Existence of monuments
dedicated to the siege in Sarajevo
13.00 Lunch
14.30 REMEMBERING VIOLENCE (II): WORDS MONIKA PALMBERGER (Oxford/
England)The transmission and silencing of collective violence in the
divided town of Mostar
STEFAN IONESCO (Massachusetts/ USA)The dynamic concept of resistance in
post-genocide remembrance: Revisiting the narratives of holocaust and
gulag survivors from Romania
SABINA CEHAJIC (Sussex/ England)Dealing with the past and facing the
future: social-psychological precursors of intergroup reconciliation in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
17.00 FINAL DISCUSSIONComment: GABI BABIC (Konstanz/ Germany), DANIEL
UZIEL (Jerusalem/ Israel)
18.00-19.00 PERSPECTIVES? Follow-up-Workshop and Networking
19.00 Dinner
20.30 AFTER THE WAR: THE PRESENCE OF THE MISSING PEOPLE MIRSAD TOKACA
(Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo, Director)
KATHERYNE BOMBERGER (International Commission on Missing Persons, Director)
contact:
CMR im Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen
Dr. Christian Gudehus
Goethestr. 3145128 Essen
Germany 0049.201.7204.116
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