Thursday 19 June 2014
14.00-14.30 Registration
14.30-15.00 Welcome & Introduction
by Andreas Gestrich (Director GHIL), Eva Bischoff (MBSF, Hebrew University Jerusalem) & Elizabeth Buettner (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
15.00-17.00 Panel 1
Haunted by Spectres: Memories of Colonialism in the Metropole
Chair: Indra Sengupta (GHIL)
Elizabeth Buettner (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Royal Questions: Belgium, the Congo, and the Uses of Colonial Legacies
Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg): Colonialism, Holocaust and German National Identity
Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University): Sex Talk, Race Talk, Empire Talk: The “Arab Man” in French Debates about Violence and Sex in the 1970s
17.00-17.30 Coffee & Tea
17.30-19.00 Public Keynote Lecture
A. Dirk Moses (European University Institute): (Post)Colonial Violence and Terror of History
Chair: Eva Bischoff (MBSF, Hebrew University Jerusalem)
19.00 Canapé Reception
20.00 Dinner at nearby Restaurant (at own cost)
Friday 20 June 2014
10.00-12.00 Panel 2
Constitutive Voids: Silence and the Settler State
Chair: Elizabeth Buettner (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Britta Schilling (Cambridge University): The Houses of (Post-) Memory: Remembrance, Silence and Colonial Architecture in Namibia
Eva Bischoff (MBSF, Hebrew University Jerusalem): Sounds of Silence: Quaker Settlers Remembering and Forgetting the 'Black War'
Andrea L. Smith (Lafayette College): Settlers and Silences in French Colonial Memory
12.00-13.00 Lunch Break
13.00-14.30 Panel 3
Postcolonial Violence and the Forgetfulness of Reconciliation
Chair: Valeska Huber (GHIL)
Norman Saadi Nikro (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin): Between Memory of an Event and an Event of Memory: Transgenerational Memory in Lebanon
Gabrielle Lynch (University of Warwick): Bringing the Audience Back in: Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the Efficacy of Public Hearings
14.30-15.00 Concluding Discussion