Event Details

End: March 31, 2015
Contact: encountering.perpetrators@gmail.com
More Info: https://encounteringperpetrators.wordpress.com/

1-3 September 2015, University of Winchester

 

Keynote: Prof. Donald Bloxham (University of Edinburgh)

 

The people who have orchestrated & participated in acts of mass killings, political violence & genocide remain figures of fascination & of revulsion in Western society. This interdisciplinary conference aims to confront perpetrators in a variety of memory spaces including literature, film, museums, education, trials & the media.

 

Possible questions for discussion include:

 

• How are perpetrators of genocidal violence represented?
• What is the role of the media in defining our engagement with perpetrators?
  How have societies with a history of political and/or colonial violence confronted past & present acts of genocide?
• How have war crimes trials influenced our conceptualisation of perpetrators?
• Can we reconcile the need to understand perpetrators with the need to ensure that the victims are not marginalised?
• What challenges to gender constructions are posed by female perpetrators?
• How are masculine identities constructed in association with genocidal practices?
• How are perpetrators of mass rape represented?
• How have perpetrators been represented in commemorative culture and education?

 

Paper proposals (max 300 words), accompanied by brief CV, should be sent to encountering.perpetrators@gmail.com by 03/31/2015.

 

Dr Kara Critchell, Research Assistant in History, University of Sussex

Dr Emiliano Perra, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Winchester