2 - 6 December 2009 at the University of Cape Town

Conference Countdown:

Friday, 4 December 2009

Time Venue Description
8:30 - 8:45 AM

QUAD

Introduction: The Value of Reflection

Tom Beech (President & CEO, The Fetzer Institute)

8:45 - 9:45 AM QUAD

Facilitated Roundtable Conversations with second generation victim/survivor groups and with victims working on reconciliation projects with perpetrator groups.

 

Regions represented: Second and Third generation Holocaust survivors; Rwandan genocide; South African xenophobic violence; second generation survivors of apartheid atrocities.

 

Sign-up sheets will be posted for delegates for the different round table conversations.

 

Session Co-ordinators: Gordon Aeschliman & Teri Murphy

 

Facilitators: Marlene Jackamara, Marlene Silbert, Judith Thompson, Adin Thayer, Theresa Edlmann, Cora Dekker, Dave Edwards, Paula Green, Samantha van Schalkwyk, Hilary Hamburger, Gael Beckett, Ginn Fourie, Wilhelm Verwoerd, Jennifer Fish, Marjorie Jobson.

9:45 - 10:15 AM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A

2A

Beyond the Law: Confronting Gender-based Violence and Coercion in Post-Apartheid South Africa – the Example of Rural KwaZulu-Natal
Rosemary Jolly

 

Chair: Ingrid Palmary

B

2B

The Process of Reconciliation Reflected in Children’s Narratives of Witnessing Domestic Abuse
Margareta Hydén

 

Chair: Jennifer Fish

C

LT3

Silencing, Suffering and Survival Strategies among Female Refugees in The Netherlands who Experienced Sexual Violence During War
Marian Tankink & Annemiek Richters

 

Chair: Gillian Whitlock

10:15 - 10:45 AM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A 2B

Negotiating Reparations: Multi-level Strategic Bargaining inthe Post-Conflict Justice Scenarios

Anupma L. Kulkarni

 

Chair: Catherine Mallon

B LT3

Gender, Memorialization, and Symbolic Reparations

Brandon Hamber & Ingrid Palmary

 

Chair: Roberto Gonzalez

C 2A

Looking the Beast in the Eye: The Media's Handling of the TRC and the Implications for Nation-building

Martha Evans

 

Chair: HJ Lubbe

10:45 - 11:00 AM

 

TEA / COFFEE
11:00 - 11:30 AM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A

2B

Speaking the Unspeakable: The Poetry of Witness
Seni Seneviratne

 

Chair: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

B 2A

The Silent Narrative of Violence - The Transgenerational Impact of Violence on Children in South Africa Today

Kerstin Stellermann, Sue Hawkridge & Umesh Bawa

 

Chair: Debbie Kaminer

C LT3 The Political Significance of Rape
Louise Du Toit

Chair: Sean Field
11:30 - 12:00 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A

2B

Living with My Perpetrators: A Question of Power by Bessie Head
Michela Borzaga

 

Chair: Erica Still

B

LT3

Gender, Satire and ‘Reconciliation’ in the Aftermath of Anishinaabec – Settler Conflict: A case study of theatre in re-membering indigenous claims to land in Canada
Margot Francis

 

Chair: Carmela Murdocca

C

2A

Intergenerational Trauma: Grandmothers’ Experiences of Confronting HIV/AIDS in the Aftermath of Apartheid
Jennifer N. Fish & Bette Dickerson

 

Chair: Therese Hulme

12:00 - 12:30 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A

2B

Are Any Actions Unforgiveable?
Vibeke Vindeløv

 

Chair: Etienne Mullet

B

2A

Living in Apologetic Times: Historical Injustice in a Multicultural Canada.
Carmela Murdocca

 

Chair: Roseanna Kennedy

C
LT3

Rescuers in Times of Mortal Danger: Who They Are; Why They Matter.

Paula Green

 

Chair:Judith Mayotte

12:30 - 1:30 PM

 

LUNCH
1:30 - 2:00 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A 2A Speaking at the Limits of the Human: Witnessing 'The Greatest Silence. Rape in the Congo'
Gillian Whitlock

Chair: Seni Seneviratne
B 2B Anchoring Testimony: Southern African Authors Embracing an Embodied Language of Trauma
Jessica Murray

Chair: Michela Borzaga
C LT3 Indemnification for Holocaust Survivors 60 Years Later: Political, Juridical and Psychological Problems Concerning Memory and Trauma
Ilka Quindeau

Chair: Gabriel Twose
2:00 - 2:30 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A 2A Checkpoints, Countercheckpoints, Encounter Points in Poetic and Cultural Responses to the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Brenda Carr Vellino

Chair: Bill Rolston
B 2B Narratives of Land and Reconciliation
Chris van der Merwe

Chair: Rosemary Jolly
C LT3 "The challenge of living with [the] legacy" of Rwanda's Genocide: 'Post'-conflict Literatures and the Ethics of Reception
Susan Spearey

Chair: Antje du Bois-Pedain
2:30 - 2:45 PM

 

TEA / COFFEE
2:45 - 3:15 PM
LT1

PLENARY ADDRESS
Judith Herman

 

Chair: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

3:15 - 3:45 PM LT1 Judith Herman Dialogue with Audience
3:45 - 5:15 PM

 

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
Session #

 

Session Title:
I

LT3

The Alabama Pilgrimage: Journey Towards Reconciliation
Doug Tanner & Ross Olivier
II

2B

The Highgate Hotel Massacre and Beyond
Neville Beling; Gillian Rennie & Theresa Edlmann
III 2A Loving Thy Neighbour: The Transformation of a Story of Forced Removals into a Story of Trust, Hope and Reconciliation and its Resonance in the Worldwide Community of the Cross of Nails
Eileen Nomdo & Jenny Wilson
5:30 PM

(Audience to be
seated by 5:15pm)

LT1

SPECIAL PUBLIC DIALOGUE EVENT:

 

Reconciliation in South Africa: Are Things Falling Apart?

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