Transitional Justice and Collective Memory
This research collaborative brings together faculty and graduate students to explore at the University of Minnesota to extend our mutual research interests in the area of transitional justice and collective memory. Since the 1980s, states and non-state actors are increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple mechanisms including domestic and international human rights trials, truth commissions, reparations, vetting, museums and other memory sites, archives, and oral history projects, as well as many forms of artistic production, including testimonial literature, photography, and film. All these processes aim to shape collective memory: knowledge about that past that is shared and mutually reinforced by a collectivity. We propose three major types of events: 1) regular seminars in which collaborative members present their current research in progress; 2) individual visits by a small number of scholars and practitioners working in the area of transitional justice and collective memory, including a formal public presentation and informal meetings and discussions with collaborative members and community groups; and 3) a symposium on human rights trials, in conjunction with three book projects currently in progress by collaborative members. Convener: Kathryn Sikkink (Political Science, CLA).
Collaborative Participants: Barbara Frey (Global Studies, CLA), Raul Marrero-Fente (Spanish and Portuguese, CLA), Fionnuala Ni Aolain (Law School), Leigh Payne (Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Joachim Savelsberg (Sociology, CLA).
Past Events
Wednesday, September 10
"Bringing Justice to an Unjustified Past in Korea": A presentation by Judge Park Won Soon
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Wednesday, October 22
"Somali refugees in Europe" a presentation by Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Thursday, November 6
"Amnesty and Justice in International Law": A presentation by Max Pensky
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Wednesday, December 10
"Respect for Sacred Sites: Protecting Indigenous Burial Grounds under International Law": A talk by James Anaya
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Friday, February 27
"Explaining Reconciliation: Performances, Mechanisms, and Processes toward Reconciliation": presentation by Mario Fumerton and Lauren Gould
3:30 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
Monday, May 11
"Transitional Justice in Peru: The Trial of Alberto Fujimori" - Presentation by Jo-Marie Burt
12:00 p.m., 1314 Social Sciences Building