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Memory and Justice
Date: 15 May 2009 Time: 2:00
Dynamics of Memories Event: 15th May 2009>
Memory and Justice
Programme of Events
Location: IAS Meeting Room 1(A008)
14:00 - Welcome
14:05 - Opening Address: Michael Kraetke
(Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), Lancaster)
14:10 - 15:25 - 'Laws of Memory and Justice'. Chair: James Summers (Law, Lancaster)
Agata Fijalkowski (Law, Lancaster), 'Transitional Justice in Romania'
David Sugarman (Law, Lancaster), 'The Human Rights Turn in 'Post-Pinochet' Chile'
15:25 - 15:40 - Coffee/Tea Break
15:40 - 16:55 - 'Wars of Memory and Justice'. Chair: John Strachan (History, Lancaster)
Alan J. Rice (UCLan), 'Memorial Gates to Nowhere': The Problematic ofTransnational African Atlantic Memorialisation of World War II'
Nayanika Mookherjee (Sociology, Lancaster),'Genocidal Cosmopolitanism and the Bangladesh War'
17:00 - 17:50 Memory and Human Rights. Chair: Mercedes Camino (DELC, Lancaster)
Michael Kraetke (IAS, Lancaster), 'Human Rights in International Law'
17:50 - Closing Remarks
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Who can attend: Anyone
Further information
Organising departments and research centres: Centre for Law and Society, Dynamics of Memories, European Languages and Cultures, History, Human Rights Forum, Institute for Advanced Studies, Law, Linguistics and English Language, Sociology