| Time |
Venue |
Description |
| 8:30 - 8:45 AM |
QUAD
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Introduction: The Value of Reflection
Tom Beech (President & CEO, The Fetzer Institute)
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| 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.
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| 9:45 - 10:15 AM |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Session # |
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Session Title: |
| A |
2A
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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
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| B |
2B
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The Process of Reconciliation Reflected in Children’s Narratives of Witnessing Domestic Abuse Margareta Hydén
Chair: Jennifer Fish
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| C |
LT3
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Silencing, Suffering and Survival Strategies among Female Refugees in The Netherlands who Experienced Sexual Violence During War Marian Tankink & Annemiek Richters
Chair: Gillian Whitlock
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| 10:15 - 10:45 AM |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Session # |
|
Session Title: |
| A |
2B |
Negotiating Reparations: Multi-level Strategic Bargaining inthe Post-Conflict Justice Scenarios
Anupma L. Kulkarni
Chair: Catherine Mallon
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| B |
LT3 |
Gender, Memorialization, and Symbolic Reparations
Brandon Hamber & Ingrid Palmary
Chair: Roberto Gonzalez
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| 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
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| 10:45 - 11:00 AM |
|
TEA / COFFEE |
| 11:00 - 11:30 AM |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
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| Session # |
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Session Title: |
| A |
2B
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Speaking the Unspeakable: The Poetry of Witness Seni Seneviratne
Chair: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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| 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
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| C |
LT3 |
The Political Significance of Rape Louise Du Toit
Chair: Sean Field
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| 11:30 - 12:00 PM |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
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| Session # |
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Session Title: |
| A |
2B
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Living with My Perpetrators: A Question of Power by Bessie Head Michela Borzaga
Chair: Erica Still
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| 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
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| C |
2A
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Intergenerational Trauma: Grandmothers’ Experiences of Confronting HIV/AIDS in the Aftermath of Apartheid Jennifer N. Fish & Bette Dickerson
Chair: Therese Hulme
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| 12:00 - 12:30 PM |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
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| Session # |
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Session Title: |
| A |
2B
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Are Any Actions Unforgiveable? Vibeke Vindeløv
Chair: Etienne Mullet
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| B |
2A
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Living in Apologetic Times: Historical Injustice in a Multicultural Canada. Carmela Murdocca
Chair: Roseanna Kennedy
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C
|
LT3 |
Rescuers in Times of Mortal Danger: Who They Are; Why They Matter.
Paula Green
Chair:Judith Mayotte
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| 12:30 - 1:30 PM |
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LUNCH |
| 1:30 - 2:00 PM |
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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 |
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PARALLEL SESSIONS |
| Session # |
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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 |
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TEA / COFFEE |
2:45 - 3:15 PM
|
LT1 |
PLENARY ADDRESS Judith Herman
Chair: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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| 3:15 - 3:45 PM |
LT1 |
Judith Herman Dialogue with Audience |
| 3:45 - 5:15 PM |
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PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
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| Session # |
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Session Title: |
| I |
LT3
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The Alabama Pilgrimage: Journey Towards Reconciliation Doug Tanner & Ross Olivier
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| II |
2B
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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
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5:30 PM
(Audience to be seated by 5:15pm) |
LT1
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SPECIAL PUBLIC DIALOGUE EVENT:
Reconciliation in South Africa: Are Things Falling Apart?
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