Genocide Studies Program in Argentina

I got this announcement from one of my IISGHR peers:

November 20-22, 2007
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF)
Postgraduate Studies Site / Centro Cultural Borges
Viamonte 525, 3rd Floor Buenos Aires, Argentina

Though genocide has an ancient history, the role of annihilation in modern times has acquired a special character, transforming itself in a tool of social control used to discipline populations and to transform social relationships.

Genocide has been a regular feature of the classical, early-modern, and colonial eras, culminating in the modern period with the destruction of the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians, in World War One, and the multifaceted genocidal campaigns of the Nazis during World War Two. These and other genocides have found a strong echo in the repressive experiences of Latin America, as exemplified by the cases of Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and El Salvador, among others. However, genocidal social practices in the Latin American region have scarcely been dealt with in genocide
studies. Certainly, they have not been systematically connected to previous European experiences of genocide or to the experiences of war and postcolonial counterinsurgency in Indochina and Algeria, for example.

The First International Meeting “On Genocidal Social Practices”, held in Buenos Aires in November 2003, was the first opportunity for Argentine, Chilean, Mexican and other Latin American researchers to establish contact with the field of genocide studies. Some of the products of this gathering were published in English in a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research, 8:2, June 2006 and in Spanish in the book Genocidio. La administración de la muerte en la modernidad (Genocide. Death administration in Modernity), published by UNTREF University in 2005.

The goal of this second meeting is to bring together researchers from different continents to explore the continuities and differences of genocidal social practices in different regions.

Academic Director of the Meeting
Daniel Feierstein (dfeierstein@untref.edu.ar)
Director Center of Genocide Studies (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina)

Organizing Academic Committee
Marcia Esparza (John Jay College, City University of New York)
Henry Huttenbach (The City College, City University of New York)
Adam Jones (Genocide Studies Program, Yale University)
Guillermo Levy (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Hamurabi Noufouri (UNTREF / UBA)
Luis Roniger (Wake Forest University)
Juergen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield)


Topics for Roundtable discussions
1) The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and its Debates: The Struggle against Impunity. (Feierstein)
2) Colonialism and Genocidal Social Practices. (Huttenbach / Levy)
3) Genocidal Social Practices in the 20th Century. (Jones / Noufouri)
4) Preventing Genocide in the 21st Century: Major Risks and Early Warning Mechanisms. (Huttenbach)
5) Political Mass Violence and Genocide in Latin America. (Feierstein / Roniger)
6) Ways of “Symbolic Achievement” of Genocide: Genocidal Social Practices and Narration. (Feierstein / Levy)
7) Genocide and Structural/Institutional Violence. (Jones / Noufouri)
8) Processes of Resistance to Genocidal Social Practices. (Levy / Esparza)
9) Aftermath and Long-Term Repercussions of the Genocidal Social Practices. (Roniger/ Esparza)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 30, 2007
Deadline for submission of papers: October 15, 2007

•Registration fee for Argentine presenters and attendees: ARG $ 120.-
•Graduates, professors and students from Argentine National Universities: ARG $ 60.-
•Registration fee for foreign presenters and attendees: U$S 150.-
(The foreign registration fee includes the Meeting’s materials, Conference meals, a CD with the expositions and papers, and the attendance certificate.)

Information and registration
•UNTREF - Centro Cultural Borges Site: Viamonte 525 (almost San Martín), 3rd Floor - Pabellón de las Naciones, Buenos Aires City - Business hours: from 10 am to 7 pm. You can also consult the website www.untref.edu.ar

•For those who are interested in participating of the meeting, please fill out and e-mail the registration form to congresogenocidio@untref.edu.ar
•For those who reside outside Buenos Aires or abroad, fees can be paid at the opening of the meeting. However, attendance must be confirmed in advance by sending the registration form.

Confirmed international Lectures:
Marcia Esparza (John Jay College, City University of New York)
Henry Huttenbach (The City College, City University of New York)
Adam Jones (Genocide Studies Program, Yale University)
Luis Roniger (Wake Forest University)
Dominik Schaller (Bern University)
Jacques Semelin (CNRS, Paris, Director Encyclopedia of Mass Violence)
Juergen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield)
Gianni Tognoni (Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos)

Organizer:
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero

Co-Sponsors:
INOGS (International Network of Genocide Scholars)
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos