Speaker: William Schabas, Professor of International Law, School of Law, Middlesex University
Room DH 110, Duncan House, High Street, Stratford, London E15 2JB
Public Transport: Stratford Station
All welcome, ADMISSION FREE, refreshments provided!
Date: 12 JUNE 2013
Venue: Stratford campus, University of East London, London
What role can and should the law play in the "recovery" or "recuperation" of the collective memory of state sanctioned human rights abuses? Who benefits and who loses when historical memory laws are passed, why do they take the form they do, and what effects do they have on victims, the state, and the powerful? Does faith (in human rights, law, democracy, or religion), facilitate or hinder attempts to retell the past in ways that take due account of the interests of victims of past human rights abuses? Spain’s 2007 Law on Historical Memory has been seen as both an inflammatory and an inadequate attempt by the Spanish state to change the official policy of forgetting that had characterised the country’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. The atrocities of the civil war and the Franco regime were effectively erased from public memory in order to ease this transition.This workshop seeks to examine some of the lessons learned by that experience and more generally of how law produces regimes of remembering and forgetting. The workshop will not just be limited to the Spanish example but will also consider other examples where law has sought to deal with historical atrocity.
Call for papers:
We invite proposals on related topics raising questions concerning law, faith and historical memory. Please submit proposals as a single file (.doc, .docx, or .pdf) including your name, institutional affiliation (if appropriate) and email address as well as the title of your contribution and an abstract of approx. 300 words by 15 May to b.collins@uel.ac.uk or k.chainoglou@uel.ac.uk
Confirmed speakers include:
Ignacio Fernández de Mata, Professor Antropología Social, Universidad de Burgos,
Rafael Escudero Alday, Professor Titular de Filosofía del Derecho, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Nanci Adler, Senior Researcher in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Head of the NIOD Transitional Justice Research Program
John Strawson, Reader, University of East London
Michael Phillips, Lecturer, University of East London
Barry Collins, Lecturer, University of East London
For further information please contact chrc@uel.ac.uk
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