INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS

Genocide as Actuality and Artefact: Conversations between Past and Present in the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide

2ND GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON GENOCIDE

University of Sussex, Brighton, England

28th June – 1st July 2010

Call For Papers

The second decade of the 21st century will begin with key landmarks in international responses to genocide. When the two ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals (for Rwanda and for the Former Yugoslavia) complete their work at the end of 2010, an initial phase in fulfilling the promise of the Genocide Convention will come to an end. At the same time, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia will enter a second year of operation while the International Criminal Court faces a year of on-going trials, unexecuted arrest warrants and, in May/June, will undertake the first review of its operations.

These landmarks are an opportunity to reflect upon advances in the punishment of Genocide (and associated crimes); to gauge the deterrent effect of these institutions; and to highlight weaknesses, especially uneven application, in the emerging architecture of international criminal justice. But, this is also an opportunity to reiterate that the prevention, detection and punishment of Genocide are not the sole prerogative of legal practitioners, but demand forms of understanding that are neither required nor endorsed by post facto legal responses. There is need to reflect afresh on the affinities, divergences and unforeseen convergences between the needs and practice of law and understandings that emanate from historical and sociological reflection. There are, for example, questions surrounding the conditions for acknowledgement and the control of knowledge, representation and imagery. And there remains the need to recognise that genocide leaves residual absences that cannot be easily captured by law, the humanities or social science, but continue to express themselves in art, literature, cinema and in diverse forms of remembrance and memorialisation.

In order to reflect on these questions, the International Network of Genocide Scholars (www.inogs.com) together with the Justice and Violence Research Centre (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/justice/) at the University of Sussex will hold a 2nd Global Conference on Genocide (28th June – 1st July 2010, University of Sussex, England).

The organising committee invites proposals for panels and papers on all aspects of the study of genocide and mass violence, past, present and future. Topics of particular interest would include (but are not restricted to) the following:

 Climate change and mass violence

 Cultural genocide and ethnocide

 Forms of remembrance and memory politics

 Genocide and the International Order

 Genocide in art, literature and film

 Holocaust and its representation

 International law and genocide

 Politics of apology Genocide prevention

 Reconciliation, restitution and recognition

 Soviet mass violence

 Genocide of indigenous peoples

 Colonial mass violence

 Education and genocide prevention

 Gender and violence

 Genocide denial

 Genocides in Cold War Asia

 Humanitarian intervention

 Mass violence in post-independence Africa

 Social origins of mass violence

 Genocide and the media

Paper/panel proposal forms and registration details can be downloaded at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/justice/1-4- 1-1.html.

Completed paper/panel proposal forms must reach the committee (genocide sussex.ac.uk) no later than 28th February 2010. Dr Nigel Eltringham (genocide sussex.ac.uk)

Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sussex

On behalf of the organising committee

We would be grateful if you circulate this Call for Papers as widely as possible.

Source and more informations : Justice and Violence Research Centre