Evénements:

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

CORPSES & MASS VIOLENCE A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

23rd & 24th of June 2011, Paris (France).

Jean-Marc Dreyfus , University of Manchester, School of Arts, History and Culture, Department of Religions and Theology

Contact : Jean-Marc Dreyfus

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Elisabeth Anstett, Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (CNRS-EHESS-Inserm-UP13)

Contact : Elisabeth Anstett

Langue de travail : anglais et français

Genocide and mass violence were major features of 20th Century European and World history. Destroyed, dismantled and hidden during the massacres themselves, human remains are then searched for, identified, and sometimes memorialized in rituals. Nonetheless, the very product of mass violence – the corpses and human remains of the murdered – remains under-researched and, arguably, an academic ‘blind spot’.

This conference, focusing on the treatment of human remains, is the inaugural event of a major new research programme on the legacy of mass violence. The project, informed by perspectives from social anthropology, history and law, will aim to describe and interpret the treatment of corpses in mass violence, and to explore what is legally and morally at stake in societies confronted by this legacy.

This first conference will attempt to outline the theoretical and methodological tools offered by different disciplines. Historians, anthropologists and legal scholars, but also specialists in criminology and forensic medicine will gather to confront their own approach to corpses and human remains.

Thursday June 23, 2011 Science Po, Salle H 101, 28 rue des Saint Pères, 75007 Paris

9h30, Welcome

Richard Rechtman, deputy-director of IRIS,

Elisabeth Anstett & Jean-Marc Dreyfus10h-12h30 - Social anthropology & corpses

Nigel Eltringham, University of Brighton (GB)

Elisabeth Claverie, CNRS (France)

Elisabeth Anstett, CNRS (France)

Discussant: Sari Wastell, Goldsmith College UL (GB)

14h-17h: Forensic studies & corpses

Jon Shute, University of Manchester (GB)

Marc Taccoen, Medico-Legal Institute of Paris (France)

Richard Rechtman, EHESS (France)

Discussant: Michel Signoli, CNRS (France)

Friday June 24, 2011 Sciences Po, Amphitéâtre Albert Sorel, 27 rue St Guillaume, 75007 Paris

9h30-12h30: Historians & corpses

Jean-Marc Dreyfus, University of Manchester (GB)

Robert Jan Van Pelt, University of Waterloo (Canada)

Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester (GB)

Discussant : Jacques Sémelin, IEP (France)

14h-17H: Law & corpses

Michael Salter, University of Central Lancashire (GB)

Sévane Garibian, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Caroline Fournet, University of Exeter (GB)

Discussant:Antoine Garapon, magistrat (France)

Programm in PDF :