Where Are The Bodies?
A Transnational Examination of State Murder and its Consequences
Friday, 23 November 2007
Western Tower Room
Quadrangle, University of Sydney
9.30am - 5.00pm
The conference will investigate the role of the state as perpetrator and its
responsibilities to the victims and their families; the process and
significance of exhumation, of identification and of repatriation; the
differing transnational stances in tracing and punishing the perpetrators; the
fraught issue of personal and official reparation; and the role and efficacy of
international justice.
Speakers
David Lloyd and Angela Blakely (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University)
on Rwanda
Adrian Vickers (University of Sydney) on Indonesia
Michael Pickering (National Museum of Australia) on repatriating the remains of
Aboriginal Australians
Richard Wright (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney) on
Bosnia after the war in ex-Yugoslavia
Judith Keene (University of Sydney) on the Korea War
Marivic Wyndham (University of Technology, Sydney) and Peter Read (University
of Sydney) on post-Pinochet Chile
The conference, sponsored by the University of Sydney’s Department of History
and School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, is free and open to the
public.
For seating and catering purposes, however, conference attendees are asked to
register by email with Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information contact
Peter Read or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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