Legacies of Violence
2nd Research Circle Conference
Thursday, March 10 and Friday, March 11th
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive

Conference Program

Thursday, March 10:

Mark Danner
Author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror
“Torture—learning to live with it? Power, the Press, and the Two-sided Photograph”
7pm, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
http://www.intlstudies.wisc.edu/news/events/dannerpr.asp

Friday, March 11:

9:00 - 10:30 Drawing conclusions about conflict
Neil Whitehead (Chair), Mary Layoun (“Gender and Islamic Art”), Camy Matthay (“Political Comics and Violence”). Jeremy Menchik (“Policing Cyberspace: Online Extremism and the Role of the State”), Yongming Zhou, (“War Talk on the Internet in China”), Rob Howard (Discussant)

11:00-12:30 Conflicting News
Jo Ellen Fair (Chair), Sharon Hutchinson (“Perverse Outcomes: Sudan and Military Violence Against Civilians”), Nasser Abufarha (“The Violence of Peace-making in Palestine”), Scott Straus (“Reconsidering the Media’s Effects in the Rwandan Genocide”), Shanti Kumar (Discussant)

12:30-2:00 Lunch Time FILM SHOWING
Brian Standing (Prolefeed productions) - Showing of the his new documentary War I$ $ell

2:30-4:00 he Media of Control
Leigh Payne (Chair), Al McCoy (“Cruel Science: CIA Torture and Process of Impunity”), Flagg Miller (“On the Summit of the Hindu Kush: Osama Bin Laden’s1996 Declaration of War Reconsidered”), Eric Haanstad (“Constructing Order and Chaos: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in the Thai Media”), John Nichols (Discussant, Capital Times and author of Dick: The Man Who Is President)

For further information please contact:
clakkims@ssc.wisc.edu, jefair@wisc.edu, lpayne@polisci.wisc.edu, nlwhiteh@wisc.edu

The Legacies of Violence
An Interdisciplinary Conference
October 15, 2004
206 Ingraham
To launch The Legacies of Violence research circle, we are planning an inaugural short conference for Friday, October 15. The conference, titled “The Legacies of Violence,” will feature presentations by UW faculty who are working on issues related the study of those who perpetrate violence, their motivations, and the social conditions under which they operate. The conference is supported through funding from the International Institute.

As co-sponsor of the conference, the Center for the Humanities is bringing Professor Michael Taussig (Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University) to campus as part of its Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series. Taussig, who will make several campus presentations, will serve as keynote speaker for the conference. His talk, "What Color Is the Sacred?" will be delivered Thursday, October 14, 2004, 7:30 PM at the Red Gym, On Wisconsin Room, 716 Langdon Street.

Conference Program

9:00 Opening Comments Neil Whitehead (Legacies of Violence Steering Committee)

9:15 - 10:30 Panel - Memory and Media

Chair: Neil Whitehead (Anthropology, UW-Madison)
Aloys Habimana (LIPRODHOR, Rwanda) - The Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath
Scott Straus (Political Science UW-Madison) - The Politics of Genocide in Rwanda
Jo Ellen Fair (Journalism/ Mass Communication UW- Madison) - Media and Memory in Ghana
Discussant: Robert Ricigliano (Director of Peace Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

11:00 - 12:30 Panel - Interpreting Violence

Chair: Susanne Wofford (Center for the Humanities/English UW-Madison)
Michael Taussig (Anthropology, Columbia University) - Colombian Paramilitaries
Neil Whitehead (Anthropology, UW-Madison) - The Poetics of Violence
Discussant: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Anthropology, UW-Madison)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Panel Trauma and Torture

Chair: Leigh Payne (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Jacques Lezra (English, UW-Madison) - Torture and its Meanings
Laurie-Beth Clark (Art, UW-Madison) - Trauma memorials
Leigh Payne (Political Science, UW-Madison) - Confessing to Violence
Discussant: Thongchai Winichakul (History, UW- Madison)

4:30p.m. The Soffa Lecture Pyle Center

Welcome: Aili Tripp (International Studies, UW-Madison)
Veena Das (Anthropology, John Hopkins) - “Violence and Everyday Life: How Women Constitute the Domestic among the Urban Poor in Delhi"

For further information contact: Chaitanya Lakkimsetti (clakkimsetti@wisc.edu), Leigh Payne (lpayne@polisci.wisc.edu), Jo Ellen Fair (jefair@wisc.edu), or Neil Whitehead (nlwhiteh@facstaff.wisc.edu)