Entries by Miriam Saqqa

International conference. Bodies out of Place: Mass Violence, Mass Graves and Necropolitics

Bodies out of Place: Mass Violence, Mass Graves and Necropolitics.  18.jul – 21.jul International conference. UPV/EHU.   CONSULT THE COMPLETE PROGRAM (Spanish/English) (pdf.) CONSULT THE COMPLETE PROGRAM (Basque/English) (pdf.)   To sign up: https://www.uik.eus/en/cuerpos-incomodos-violencia-masiva-fosas-comunes-y-necropolitica   This international conference invites some of the leading international specialists in the analysis of mass grave exhumations as human rights […]

04/11/2018. Conference of Francisco Ferrándiz at Princeton University.

Conference “News from the Afterlife: Civil War Mass Grave Exhumations in Contemporary Spain” by Francisco Ferrándiz, at Princeton University. Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 4:30 pm. https://anthropology.princeton.edu/events/news-afterlife-civil-war-mass-grave-exhumations-contemporary-spain    

Poetics of Resistance against oblivion and impunity. Stories of mothers whose children were killed by the Colombian army.

SEMINAR UNIVERSIDAD DEL BARRIO – January 29 19:00 “Poetics of Resistance against oblivion and impunity. Stories of mothers whose children were killed by the Colombian army.”     Since 2002 in Colombia, more than 6,800 cases of extrajudicial executions have been reported, crimes against humanity that today, despite the rhetoric of peace, remain unpunished. Based […]

DZIUBAN, Zuzanna (2017) Mapping the “Forensic Turn”: Engagements with Materialities of Mass Death in Holocaust Studies and Beyond

    During recent decades, forensic investigation has become a standard response to the reality of mass graves resulting from genocides and various forms of political violence. From Argentina to Rwanda, from former Yugoslavia to Poland, the search for the sites of mass burial, the application of archaeological and forensic practices, and the use of […]

Women in the Civil War and the Postwar Period. Memory and Education. 24 / XI / 2017

  II Conference on cultural Heritage, Memory and Archeology  Assembly Hall in the Casa de Socorro of the City Council of Alcalá de Henares (Street Santiago, 13) 28801 Alcalá de Henares November 24 from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm Organized by: AMTTA, MCyP and AUDEMA and the collaboration of the Hon. City Council of Alcalá […]

6th Global Conference on Genocide

  6th Global Conference on GenocideCALL FOR PAPERSMedical Faculty of Aix-Marseille University (France), 4-7 July 2018Genocide and Mass Violence : diagnosis, treatment, and recovery ?Humanities, social and medical sciences facing extreme violence Conference Steering CommitteeDr. Elisabeth Anstett, CNRS, Chair of the CommitteeMme Laetitia Delouis, CNRS-AMU, Coordinator of the CommitteeMr Valery Ravix, AMU, IT manager Conference Scientific CommitteeProf. Pascal Adalian, […]