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The research project “Political Technologies of Memory: A Genealogy (1973-2013) of the Devices of Registration, Denunciation, Compensation and Memory of Human Rights Violations by the Military Dictatorship in Chile” of Alberto Hurtado University, the Interdisciplinary Programme in Memory and Human Rights of the same university, invite the submission of papers and art works for its international conference “Registering Political Violence: Technologies, Uses, and Effects.”
This international conference will analyse and critically assess different experiences of public and private registry and accounting for contemporary episodes of massive political violence. The conference will address cases of societies torn apart by experiences of war, armed conflicts, state repression, genocide, massacres and forced migration involving politically motivated gross human rights violations, from the particular perspective of the registration and communication of these atrocities to society at large.
Proposals for papers may address but are not limited to the following general topics:
In addition, artists, activists, university academics, and designers are encouraged to submit short audio-visual material, digital work and projects related to the central issues posed by the conference.
International Keynotes:
Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths College
Béatrice Fraenkel, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences, France.
DATES AND DEADLINES
-Paper abstracts submission: 10th October 2017
-Audio/visual work submission: 10th October 2017
It will take place in the Born, Center of Culture and Memory of Barcelona, throughout October of 2017.
All sessions will be held from 7 to 9 pm.
Course Tema MeR-Born
María Chiara Bianchini, Marije Hristova, Lidia Mateo Leivas, Carlos Aguero, Ricard Conesa y David González
UPV-EHU Summer Courses, under the direction of Francisco Etxeberria: Mass violence, mass graves and human rights. Perspectives from the forensic and social sciences.
This course aims to link the technical aspects of the forensic and social sciences as essential elements for the obtaining of useful evidence for the judicial authorities. Specifically, will be exposed the validity of what is being done for the institutions regarding exhumations of victims of the Civil War.
OBJETIVOS:
The course will be a continuation of the one held in 2015 under the title “Contributions of Forensic Anthropology in the framework of Human Rights and Humanitarian Action”.
This course aims to link the technical aspects of the forensic and social sciences as essential elements for the obtaining of useful evidence for the judicial authorities. Specifically, will be exposed the validity of what is being done for the institutions regarding exhumations of victims of the Civil War.
It is intended to discuss a topic in which a social sector demands more institutional actions.
PROGRAM:
Reception and submission of documentation
“Current state of exhumations of the Civil War: contributions to human rights”
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“International Protocols on Exhumations: The Right to Justice”
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“The role of the criminologist in the configuration the evidences on exhumations and human rights”
“The impact of global human rights on Spanish exhumations.”
“The Spanish Justice in front of the crimes of the Franco regime and the International Jurisdiction. The Amnesty Act of 1977 “
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“Procedural status of the Querella Argentina about the victims of the Franco regime”
“The victims of Francoism and its protection in front of the Spanish courts of justice: procedural and substantive issues”
“Round Table of Historical Memory Associations: Institutions in the face of scientific-social evidence and human rights”
Visit to the Kattintxiki grave in Oiartzun and explanation in the town hall of Oiartzun
On 6th and 7th July in Madrid took place the Annual Internal Workshop –
BELOW GROUND: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights in Historical, Transnational and Comparative Perspective (I+D+i CSO 2015-66104-R)
During two intense days we shared 6 panels – 21 individual presentations- and a project meeting to know everyone´s research and continue with the organization of next year´s International Congress.
Many thanks to all for coming to Madrid. And especially thanks to everyone for sharing, talking and continuing to learn together. We continue to grow one more year as an International Research Team.
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In the framework of the European Project UNREST, the team has been working on the creation of a show about the exhumations in Poland, Bosnia Herzegovina and Spain.
We present the 1st TEASER and soon we will provide more information.