Document Actions

Schedule

  • January 22

    10:00 Coffee & Conference Registration
    10:45 Welcome & Opening Remarks (Katharina Hacker & Henning Tauche)
    11:00-12:30

    Panel 1: Re-shaping Peace Discourse

    Chair: Mortada Haidar

    Archana Ravi (GCSC) – The Rhetorics of Pre-emptive ‘War’

    Dr. Vedran Obucína (Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue) – Rethinking Golden Ages (online)

    Dr. Asis Mistry (University of Calcutta) – Commemorating Quietude: Minoritarian Memories of Peace in South Asia

     
    12:30-14:00 Lunch (Otto-Behagel Mensa)
    14:00-15:30

    Panel 2: Memory, Citizenship, & Peace

    Chair: Katharina Hacker

    Kathi Ammann (University of Melbourne) – On the Future of the Past - Colonial Echoes and Premature Back Death in the Wake of German Memory Culture

    Valentina Otmačić (University of Rijeka) – “I wish to remind our citizens”: The Interplay Between Memory and Local Peace in the Multiethnic City of Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Ivana Dinić (GCSC), Fatos Hoxha (University of Regensburg) & Vasja Groselj (University of Ljubljana)– Remembering Peace: Yugoslav Miners´ Accounts of the Golden 1960s´ and the 1970s´ 
    15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
    16:00-17:00

    Panel 3: Intersectionality & Peace

    Chair: Henning Tauche

    Prof. Dr. Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz (TED University) – Rethinking Memories of Peace: Integrating Gender and Environmental Theories in International Relations

    Vicky Panossian (University of Warwick)– Peace by Piece: The Function of Post-War Objects for Arabic Speakers in the UK
    17:00-18:00

    Coffee Break
    18:00-20:00

    Keynote Lecture

    Chair: Miguel Angel Caballero

    Prof. Johanna Mannergren (Södertörn University)

    Wild Peace, Unruly Memories
    20:00-21:30 Catered Dinner (GCSC 2nd Floor)

     

    January 23

    9:00-10:30

    Panel 4: Spaciality & Peace

    Chair: Anna Ivanova

    KVJ Koshalee (University of Ruhuna) – The Colossal Stupa of the 21st Century: Sandahiru Seya and the Memory Politics of Post-War Sri Lanka (Online)

    David Cabrera Rueda (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) –An Anticipated Ruin? The Public Life of the Unfinished Memory Museum of Colombia Building

    Meral Gezici-Yalçın, Kai-Sören Falkenhain, & Esther Ruessler (Bielefeld University) –
    Remembering Peace Along a Contested Border: Ethnographic Insights from the German -Polish Twin City Frankfurt (Oder) –Słubice
    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
    11:00-12:30

    Keynote Lecture

    Chair: Mortada Haidar

    Dr. Craig Larkin (King’s College London)

    Heritage, Nostalgia, and Forgetfulness in Lebanon and Iraq
    12:30-13:30 Lunch Break (Otto-Behagel Mensa)
    13:30-15:00

    Panel 5: Literary Narratives & Peace

    Chair: Mortada Haidar

    Anna Dziuban (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) – Archive of Erasure: Silence and the Ghosts of Subjugation

    Azzeddine Tajjiou (Mohammed First University) – Fugitive Moments of Peace: Remembering the Unyielding in Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night and Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel (online)

    Soukaina Aouaki (Hassan II University )& Lahcen Ait Idir (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Mohammedia) – Narrating Peace through Trauma: Diasporic Memory in Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain

    15:00-15:30

    Coffee Break
    15:30-16:30

    Panel 6: Films & Peace

    Chair: Reqqa Salem

    Salma Yassine (University of Exeter) – In Search of a Cat: The Memory of Peace is not yet (t)here

    Ahmed Berka (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) – Peace as Absence: Remembering the Unseen in Post-9/11 Hollywood Films: The |Reluctant Fundamentalist and The Mauritanian

    16:30-17:00 Closing Remarks Roundtable