THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Rutgers University, Newark (http://cghr.newark.rutgers.edu/)

is pleased to announce its first event of the 2009-2010 academic year

Genocide and Mass Violence : Memory, Symptom, and Response

September 17-18, 2009

Baker Trial Courtroom
Center for Law and Justice, Room 125
123 Washington Street
Rutgers University, Newark
Directions: www.newark.rutgers.edu/maps

Conference Program

SEPTEMBER 17

Welcoming Remarks (1:25)
Philip Yeagle (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University-Newark)
Alex Hinton (Anthropology, Rutgers University)
Devon Hinton (Psychiatry, Harvard University)

Narrative and Memory I (1:45-3:15)
Moderator: Fran Macias-Lees (Anthropology, Rutgers University)

The Trauma of the Dead
Heonik Kwon (Anthropology, University of Edinburgh)

The Chaplain Turns to God: Negotiating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among American Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Erin Finley (Health Sciences, University of Texas)

Memory and the Amplification of Trauma: Child Witnesses of the 1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Conerly Casey (Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology)

**Coffee break (3:15-3:45)

Narrative and Memory II (3:45-5:30)
Moderator: Roberto Lewis-Fernández (Psychiatry, Columbia University)

« Behaves like a Rooster and Cries like a Dog»: The Production of Dreams & Nightmares in the Children of the Revolution and the IRI War of Sacred Defense
Michael M. J. Fischer (Anthropology, MIT)

Picking Up the Pieces: Re-Imagining Nation, State, and Community through Gacaca in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Christopher Taylor (Anthropology, University of Alabama-Birmingham)

Memories of Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda: Saving Face in the face of Suffering
Andrea Grieder (Anthropology, University of Zurich & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Embodying the Distant Past: Holocaust Descendant Narratives of the Lived Presence of the Genocidal Past
Carol Kidron (Anthropology, University of Haifa)

**Coffee Break (5:30-6:00)

Film Screening, «40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy»
Discussion: Robert Lemelson (Anthropology, UCLA)

SEPTEMBER 18

Symptom and Social Rupture I : 9:00-10:15
Moderator: Peter Guarnaccia (Human Ecology, Rutgers University)

Idioms of Distress and Trauma in Bali: A Complex Interaction
Robert Lemelson (Anthropology, UCLA)

Idioms of Distress and Trauma Among Cambodian Genocide Survivors
Devon Hinton (Psychiatry, Harvard University), Alex Hinton (Anthropology, Rutgers University), and Sophearith Choung (Documentation Center of Cambodia)

Local Narratives of Distress and Resilience: Lessons in Psychosocial Wellbeing among among K’iche- Maya of Tululché in Postwar Guatemala
Patricia Foxen (National Council of La Raza)

**Coffee break (10:15-10:45)

Symptom and Social Rupture II : 10:45-12:00
Moderator: Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University)

Sleep Paralysis or Rape Attack? Collective Responses to Trauma During War in Sierra Leone
Doug Henry (Anthropology, University of North Texas)

« The Space That Will Never be Filled»: Ethnography as a Way of Addressing Dehumanization
Alexandra Argenti (Anthropology, University College, London)

Pasts Imperfect: Talking with Former Combatants in Colombia
Kimberly Theidon (Anthropology, Harvard University)

Post-Conflict Response : 1:00-2:45
Moderator: Andrew Rasmussen (School of Medicine, NYU)

A Place for Medical Responses to the Remainders of Violence? Building Mental Health Care in Postconflict Aceh
Byron J. Good (Social Medicine, Harvard University)

Acehnese Women’s Tales of Traumatic Experience, Resilience and Recovery
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Social Medicine, Harvard University)

Risks of Reintegration: Traditional Healing and Psychosocial Interventions for Child Soldiers in Nepal
Brandon Kohrt (Psychiatry, Emory University)

«Moral Missionaries»: «Being» Traumatized and «Doing» Psychosocial Work in Liberia’s Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Sharon Abramowitz (Anthropology, Harvard University)

**Coffee Break (2:45-3:15)

Concluding Discussion : 3:15-5:15

Critical Reflections
Michael M. J. Fischer (Anthropology, MIT)
Byron J. Good (Social Medicine, Harvard University)
Laurence Kirmayer (Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University)

Workshop Discussion

***This conference was made possible by the support of a Lemelson/SPA Conference Fund Award and a grant from the Rutgers Research Council ***

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