Daniel Palacios González
October 31, 2024, 5:00 PM
Department of Visual Cultures Public Programme, Autumn 2024
Goldsmiths
University of London
Location: LG01.Professor Stuart Hall Building, London, Reino Unido
November 28, 2024, 6:00 PM
UNED Pamplona
Participants: Yayo Aznar Almazán (Professor of Art History), Koldo Pla (Txinparta Fuerte San Cristóbal, Collective Memory Network), Amaia Lerga Fuertes (Association of Relatives of the Executed of Navarra – AFFNA-36), Daniel Palacios González (Art History Researcher)
Organize: NED Pamplona, UNED Facultad de Geografía e Historia, UNED Humanidades a corta distancia
Cloraborate: AFFNA-36 (Asociación de Familiares de Fusilados de Navarra); Txinparta (Fuerte San Cristóbal)
Location:
C. del Sadar, S/N, 31006 Pamplona, Navarra
Francisco Ferrándiz (PhD University of California at Berkeley, 1996) is Associate Researcher in the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology (ILLA) of the Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CCHS) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His research in the anthropology of the body, violence and social memory encompasses two main ethnographic objects: the spiritist cult of María Lionza in Venezuela and, since 2003, the politics of memory in contemporary Spain, through the analysis of the current process of exhumation of mass graves from the Civil War (1936-1939). Before being hired at CSIC, he has taught and conducted research at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), the University of Utrecht, the Autonomous University of Morelos (UAEM), the University of Deusto and the University of Extremadura. He is the author of Escenarios del cuerpo: Espiritismo y sociedad en Venezuela (2004), and co-editor of The Emotion and the Truth: Studies in Mass Communication and Conflict (2002), Before Emergency: Conflict Prevention and the Media (2003), Violencias y culturas (2003), Jóvenes sin tregua: Culturas y políticas de la violencia (2005), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Research (2007), and Fontanosas 1941-2006: Memorias de carne y hueso (2010), among others.
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Elisabeth Anstett is tenured senior researcher in Social Anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). Her areas of expertise include: mass violence and funerary rituals, exhumations and re-burals, dead bodies management, curation of human remains, Eastern Europe and social studies of waste.
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the prestigious journal Genocide Studies and Prevention: an International Journal; Director together with Jean-Marc Dreyfus of the collection Human Remains & Violence (Manchester University Press); Director together with Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Caroline Fournet of Human Remains & Violence – an Interdisciplinary Journal; Member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Etnologue Française; Director together with Caroline Dufy and Ronan Hervouet of the collection Europes, terrains et sociétés; and member from 2010 to 2015 of the Conseil de laboratoire de l’Iris.
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He has been Assistant Professor Doctor in the Department of Social Anthropology of the UCM and, from 2009 to 2011, Assistant Professor in the Chair of Sociology of Religion and Culture of the University of Bayreuth (Germany). He is currently Associated Professor of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota (USA). His recent works tackle the theory and methodology of research on social memory and collective identities, and in particular visual culture, commemorations and the transnationalization of the memory of the Holocaust. He has also worked on testimonies and oral history and on anti-Semitism in Spain.
Between his subjects of investigation and specialization they emphasize: the studies on the memory; studies on the Holocaust and Genocide; anti-Semitism; the globalization; the Sociology of the media; qualitative methods; and Audiovisual Sociology, among others.
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Ulrike Capdepon holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Hamburg (Germany, 2011). She is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). After leaving the graduate school, she has been a Marie Curie-Fellow at the Center for Human Science and Humanities (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, an Otto-Bennmann Fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz in the European Research Council Project “Narratives of Terror and Disappearance in Argentina”. From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Capdepon was a DAAD Postdoctoral Research Scholar affiliated to the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University in New York City. Currently, she is a Visiting Faculty in the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), Princeton University (USA).
Her research interests include Human Rights policies and memory studies in Latin America and Spain, as well as national and international prosecutions of human rights crimes and enforced disappearance. Capdepon has published widely about the politics of the past, especially in Latin America’s Southern Cone and Spain, for different academic audiences in English, German and Spanish. She is the author of the book From the Pinochet Case to the desaparecidos of the Spanish Civil War. Coming to terms with the dictatorships’ past and Human Rights Violations in Chile and Spain. [Vom Fall Pinochet zu den Verschwundenen des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges: Die Auseinandersetzung mit Diktatur und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Chile und Spanien] (Global Studies, Transcript) and of a substantial number of research papers and book chapters.
E-mail: ulrike.capdepon@giga-hamburg.de
Publications (selection)
Book
Vom Fall Pinochet zu den Verschwundenen des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges: Die Auseinandersetzung mit Diktatur und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Chile und Spanien [From the Pinochet Case to the desaparecidos of the Spanish Civil War. Coming to Terms with the Dictatorships’ Past and Human Rights Violations in Chile and Spain]. PhD publication. Global Studies, Transcript: Bielefeld, pp. 376, 2015.
Review Articles
“Die juristische Aufarbeitung der franquistischen Verbrechen in Argentinien: Von der Straflosigkeit zur universellen Gerichtsbarkeit.” [Coming to Terms with the Franco Crimes in Argentina. From Impunity to Universal Jurisdiction]. In: Informationen. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift des Studienkreises Deutscher Widerstand, Spanischer Bürgerkrieg. Geschichte und Gegenwart, No. 83, p. 7-11, 2016.
“Dictatorship and Human Rights Violations in Latin America. Coming to Terms with the Past in Chile and Argentina”. In: Art & Thought, Fikrun Wa Fann. Cultural Magazine for the Dialogue with the Arabic World (Journal of the Goethe-Institute) Special Issue on “Coming to Terms with the Past”, No. 98, p. 31-36, January 2013 (also published in Arabic and Farsi), online:https://www.znf.uni-hamburg.de/media/documents/peacebuilding/fruehere-semester/2013-friedensbildung-praesentationen-19122013-spaete-gerechtigkeit-text.pdf
“The Influence of Human Rights Discourses and Practices from the Southern Cone on the Confrontation with the Franco Dictatorship in Spain.” In: Human Security Perspectives, No. 1, p. 84-90, October 2011, online:
“Der öffentliche Umgang mit der Franco-Diktatur in Spanien” [Public Remembrance of the Franco Dictatorship in Spain]. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ), Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, No. 36, p. 33-38, September 2010, online: http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/H4P8MZ,0,Der_%F6ffentliche_Umgang_mit_der_FrancoDiktatur.html
“Die Verschwundenen des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs: Zwischen globalen Normen und lokalen Erinnerungsdiskursen” [The Disappeared from the Spanish Civil War: Between Global Norms and Local Memory Discourses]. In: WeltTrends. Zeitschrift für internationale Politik, No. 68, pp. 13-18, September 2009.
“La memoria de la Guerra Civil española a los setenta años de su comienzo” [The Memory of the Spanish Civil War Sixty Years After its Beginning]. In: Iberoamericana. América Latina–España–Portugal, No. 25, pp. 184-189, May 2007, online:
Book Chapters
“The Selectivity of Universal Jurisdiction: The History of Transnational Human Rights Prosecutions in Latin America and Spain.” In: Quataert, Jean H./Wildenthal, Lora (eds.): The History of Human Rights, Routledge Edited Volume: New York (forthcoming).
“Memorias familiares, identidades reprimidas y la vida política de los cadáveres: El significado actual de las narrativas de parentesco en las exhumaciones de la Guerra Civil española” [Family Memories, Repressed Identities and the Political Life of Dead Bodies. The Current Significance of Kinship Narratives at Exhumations from the Spanish Civil War]. In: Gatti, Gabriel/Mahlke, Kirsten (eds.): Víctimas, sangre y filiación en contextos culturales ibérico(americano)s [Victims, Blood and Filiation in Ibero(American) Contexts]. Verfuert, Iberoamericana: Frankfurt a. M. (forthcoming).
“La ‘Querella Argentina’ y la represión franquista: memorias locales, procesos de justicia transnacionales y ‘efectos rebote’”, In: Winter, Ulrich (ed.): Transiciones democráticas en la península ibérica y el Cono Sur. La emergencia de espacios transnacionales de memoria. Topos, conceptos y discursos [Democratic Transitions in the Iberian Peninsula and the Southern Cone. The Emergence of Transnational Memory Spaces]. Peter Lang, Estudios hispánicos en el contexto global: Frankfurt a. M. (forthcoming).
“Spaniens Übergang zur Demokratie und Westintegration: Von der ausbleibenden
Auseinandersetzung der Franco-Diktatur zur Abkehr vom Transitionskonsens.
[Spains Transition to Democracy and Integration to Europe. From a Lack of Official Politics of Coming to Terms with the Past to a Rejections of the Transition Consensus]. In: Ganzemüller, Jörg (ed.): Diktatur und Diktaturüberwindung in Spanien, Portugal und Griechenland [Overcoming Dictatorships in Spain, Portugal, and Greece], Böhlau: Weimar/Berlin (forthcoming).
“La representación del Holocausto en libros escolares de historia chilenos, españoles y argentinos: ¿Hacia la inscripción en un marco universal de los Derechos Humanos?” [Holocaust Representations in Chilean, Spanish and Argentinean Textbooks: Towards a Global Framework of Universal Human Rights?] In: Fracapane, Karel (ed.): La enseñanza del Holocausto en América Latina. Los desafíos para educadores y legisladores [Holocaust Education in Latin America. Challenges for Educators and Legislators], UNESCO: Paris, p. 174-183, 2017, online: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002531/253183s.pdf
“Von Nürnberg nach Madrid? Transnationale Vergangenheitspolitik und universelle Gerichtsbarkeit zur juristischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Franco-Diktatur” [From Nuremberg to Madrid? Transnational Politics with the Past and Coming to Terms with the Franco Dictatorship Through Universal Jurisdiction]. In: Ganzemüller, Jörg (ed.): Recht und Gerechtigkeit. Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung der Diktaturen in Europa: Böhlau Editorial. Weimar/Berlin, p. 231-251, 2017.
“Transitional Justice in Spanien [Transitional Justice in Spain].” In: Mihr, Anja/Pickel, Gert/Pickel, Susanne (eds.): Transitional Justice Handbook, Springer Editorial: Berlin/Heidelberg, p. 1-20, 2016.
“Del ‘caso Pinochet’ a los desaparecidos de la Guerra Civil: La influencia de los discursos sobre los Derechos Humanos del Cono Sur en el debate español sobre el pasado franquista (1998-2012)” [From the Pinochet Case to the Disappeared of the Spanish Civil War. The Influence of Human Rights Discourses from the Southern Cone on the Spanish Debate about the Franco past]. In: Macé, Jean François/Martínez Zauner, Mario (eds.): Pasados de violencia política. Memoria, discurso y puesta en escena [Pasts of Political Violence. Memory, Discourse and Performance], Anexo editorial: Madrid, p. 257-279, 2016.
“Vom ‚Fall Pinochet’ zum ‚Fall Garzón‘. Der Einfluss von Menschenrechtsdiskursen aus dem Cono Sur auf die Auseinandersetzung mit der Franco-Diktatur in Spanien” [From the Pinochet Case to the Garzón Case. The influence of Human Rights Discourses from the Southern Cone for Memory Politics in Spain]. In: Halbmayer, Ernst/Karl, Sylvia (eds.): Die erinnerte Gewalt. Postkonfliktdynamiken in Lateinamerika [Remembered Violence. Post Conflict Dynamics in Latin America], Global Studies, Transcript, Bielefeld, p. 277-300, 2012.
Book Reviews
“Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay. Identity and Meaning”, Gabriel Gatti, Palgrave Macmillan, New York (2014). In: Human Rights Quarterly, John Hopkins University Press, Cincinnati, Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 478-480, 2017.
“The Past Below Ground. Contemporary Exhumations of the Spanish Civil War”, Francisco Ferrándiz, Anthropos Editorial, Barcelona, Spain (2014). In: Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, Madrid, CSIC, Vol. 70, No. 2, p. 571-573, 2015. Also published online at ISHR, Columbia University: http://historicaldialogues.org/2015/06/29/book-review-el-pasado-bajo-tierra-exhumaciones-contemporaneas-de-la-guerra-civil/
“Entre historias y memorias. Los desafíos metodológicos del legado reciente en América Latina”, Maria Rosaria Stabili (ed.). In: Lateinamerika Analysen (Hamburg, GIGA), No. 18, p. 240-243, 2007.
Zoe Crossland is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Her main theoretical interests lie in semiotic archaeology, and archaeologies of death and the body. She works in historical archaeology and the archaeology of the contemporary past, focusing particularly on nodes of controversy where conflicting sets of beliefs and practices converge. In particular, she is interested in the ways in which negotiations and conflict between actors are mediated through material conditions. To fully understand the extent to which archaeology may analyze such conditions, she works in two radically different areas of research.
Her research in Madagascar is concerned with archaeologies of encounter in the highlands. One aspect of this research traces the introduction of Protestant Christianity into Madagascar by British missionaries at the start of the 19th century. Here she focuses on the potential dislocation that was experienced when one way of living, learned through a lifetime’s experience within specific material and social conditions, was challenged in a confrontation with a radically different understanding of how to act effectively and morally, the ways in which people attempted to resolve and make sense of this dislocation, and the new and unanticipated formations that were created as a result. She is currently completing a book which explores the semiotics of encounters in highland Madagascar, provisionally entitled: “Encounters with Ancestors: archaeologies of recognition and loss in highland Madagascar”.
My second area of research focuses on the production of the excavated body. Here I draw on the semeiotic of C. S. Peirce to explore the signs of the body and of exhumation, considering how archaeologists constitute themselves and others through embodied material engagement with the world. Through exploring the language and orientation of forensic archaeology towards the excavation of human remains, this research works towards a fuller appreciation of the situated and material semiotic relationships through which archaeology is composed, in order to better understand how we construct meaning from excavated material remains.
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Jean-Marc Dreyfus is reader in History and in Holocaust studies at the University of Manchester (History Division), United Kingdom. His research considers the Holocaust and genocides, Jewish history in Europe and post-mass violence exhumations and identification of corpses. He is the author of six monographs, including L’impossible réparation. Déportés, biens spoliés, or nazi, comptes bloqués, criminels de guerre (The impossible reparation. Deportees, looted properties, Nazi gold, war criminals), Paris, Flammarion, January 2015. He has recently edited a special issue of the European Review of History, on “Traces, memory and the Holocaust in the writings of W.G. Sebald”. He is the co-organizer (with Elisabeth Anstett) of the ERC research programme “Corpses of mass violence and genocide”. He currently holds a senior research fellowship from the British Academy, to write a book about the French search mission of corpses in Germany after WWII.
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Forensic scientist, anthropologist, spelunker, researcher, titular professor of Legal and Forensic Medicine at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), president of the Aranzadi Science Society, secretary of the Spanish Association of Paleopathology, and subdirector of the Basque Institute of Criminology. He has participated as a researcher in numerous exhumations in archaeological contexts: soldiers from the Napoleonic wars, people executed by firing squad in the Spanish civil war, and arrested-disappeared people in Colombia and Chile. He has numerous national and international publications on subjects related to anthropology, paleopathology, and legal and forensic medicine. He received the Human Rights Prize “Gipuzkoa Giza Eskubideak 2006” from the Statutory Council of Guipuzcoa for his academic and professional trajectory in the field of Forensic Medicine. The Human Rights Prize “Rene Cassen 2007” of the Basque Government was awarded to the team he directs in the Aranzadi Science Society for its research project on the people who disappeared in the Spanish civil war.
Luis Fondebrider obtained his degree in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is a specialist in Forensic Anthropology. After democracy was restored in Argentina in 1983, together with a group of professionals in Archaeology, Anthropology, Medicine, and Computer Science, he founded an organization named the Argentinian Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF), with the objective of scientifically documenting the Human Rights violations that had occurred in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. At present, he is President of the EAAF. In his role as a member of the EAAF, he has participated as an expert in over 700 cases in the Argentinian courts. At the same time, he participated in and/or co-directed research missions in numerous countries. He has acted as an expert and/or forensic consultant for different international organizations. He has also been the co-receiver of different awards. As a teacher, he has given conferences and seminars on the application of Forensic Sciences to the documentation of Human Rights violations in several countries, as well as at universities and research centers in England, the United States, Belgium, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. He is also a teacher in the Chair of Legal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.