Arts After Atrocity — Global Human Rights and Local Representations of Violence and Resistance
An international symposium organized by the Center for Global Studies
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Research Hall, 163
Arts After Atrocity
—
Global Human Rights and Local Representations
of Violence and Resistance
An international symposium organized by the Center for Global Studies
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 from 11:30pm to 7:30 p.m.
Research I, Room 163
Fairfax Campus
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In the aftermath of atrocity, societies develop diverse mechanisms to cope with the legacy of violence. The experienced trauma involves not only the physical violence visited upon individual bodies, but also the destruction of families, communities and broader societal networks. Truth commissions seek to develop new narratives to understand past violence, while other mechanisms, including trials and reparations programs, attempt to provide more concrete forms of justice to survivors and relatives of victims of violence. Beyond these traditional transitional justice mechanisms, diverse art forms have also been deployed by those directly affected by violence as well as by artists seeking to convey new interpretations of why violence occurred and how it has impacted people and society at large. This international symposium brings together artists, filmmakers, scholars and those affected by violence--from Latin America, the Balkans, and Beyond--to discuss how the arts are deployed to represent past violence and reinterpret fundamental understandings about power, truth, and justice.
Conference schedule
12:00-1:15pm Film screening: Al Más Allá
Al Más Allá (“Beyond the Beyond”) explores the impact of drug trafficking on poor, rural Mexican communities. Featuring discussion led by Ricardo Vivancos-Perez, Assistant Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University.
1:30-2:45pm Panel I: Representations of Violence: Memory and Politics in the Balkans
Chair: Terrence Lyons, Co-Director, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University
Panelists: Luka Rukavina, Independent Filmmaker, Croatia Vjeran Pavlakovic, Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia Iva Vukusic, War Crimes Researcher and Analyst, Croatia / The Netherlands
3:00-4:15pm Panel II: Art and Social Change in a Globalizing World
Chair: TBD
Panelists:
Bassam Haddad, Director, Middle East Studies, George Mason University
Edgar Endress, Associate Professor, Art and Visual Technology, George Mason University
Don Russell, Executive Director, Provisions Learning Center, George Mason University
4:30-6:00pm Panel III: Art and Collective Memory in the Aftermath of Violence: Latin
American Perspectives
Chair: Jo-Marie Burt, Director, Latin American Studies, George Mason University
Panelists:
Mauricio Delgado, Visual Artist, Peru
Karen Bernedo, Visual Artist, Peru
Marcial Godoy-Anativia, Associate Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and
Politics, New York University
6:00-7:30pm Community Art and Social Change
Keynote Address by Andy Shallal, Owner, Busboys and Poets
Spoken Word Performance by Sonya Renee, Poet
Sponsored by The Center for Global Studies, Latin American Studies, and the Human Rights and Global Justice Working Group at George Mason University.
