All public aspects of this conference will be held in the Prairie Room of the Diefenbaker Centre, University of Saskatchewan, accessible also remotely via ZOOM.
https://usask-ca.zoom.us/j/91356843195?pwd=zzCSFsbwZcMc1gAtyHbvkJ2aHqwbNn.1
Transitional Justice Boundaries, Innovations, and Refractions
International Conference
October 24-25, 2024
Co-hosted by the University of Saskatchewan (Kirsten Fisher) and Washington and Lee University (Mark Drumbl)
Thursday October 24
9:30 am Doors Open
10:00 Introduction: Kirsten Fisher and Mark Drumbl
10:15 PANEL I
Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, and Technology: Sites of Violence and Lieux of Reconciliation
Chair: Kirsten Fisher
Juan Espíndola Mata, National Autonomous University of Mexico, ‘Algorithms, Reparations, Repetitions: How Digital Platforms Erode the Aims of Transitional Justice’
Chris Lamont, Tokyo International University, ‘Algorithmic Justice? Digital Investigations and Transitional Justice’
Jasmin Haunschild and Laura Gianna Guntrum, Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 'Towards a Digitally Mediated Transitional Justice Process? An Analysis of Colombian Transitional Justice Organisations’ Posting Behaviour on Facebook’
12:00 Lunch break
1:00pm PANEL II
Rethinking Philosophical and Memorial Approaches to Transitional Justice
Chair: Mark Drumbl
Daniel Gómez, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), ‘Creative Research Methods and Civilian Agency in Civil Wars: Crafting the past through Memory Workshops in Colombia’
Julia Emtseva, European University Institute, ‘Can Anarchism Save Transitional Justice? Reimagining the Field for a Less Violent, More Inclusive World’
Will Vardy, Washington and Lee University, ‘Beyond Democracy: An Exploration of Transitional Justice Trends in Democratic Backsliders’
2:45pm Break
3:15 PANEL III
The Natural and Human Environment: Climate Change, Greening, Cultural Property, and Architecture
Chair: Peter Szigeti, Facutly of Law, University of Albert (currenty at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland)
Rachel Killean, University of Sydney, ‘The Prospects and Progress of “Green” Transitional Justice’
Jasmina Brankovic, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, ‘Transitional Justice for Climate Justice: New Avenues to Social Transformation’
Loyce Mrewa, Western University, Canada, ‘Liberian Peace Huts as Archetypes of Neotraditional Practices Advancing Gender Justice in Transitional Societies’
Lucas Lixinski, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, ‘Transitional Justice, Temporalities, and the Restitution of Cultural Objects’
Friday October 25
9:30 Coffee
9:45 PANEL IV
Structural Harms of Supremacy, Racism, and Misogyny
Chair: Jo-Anne Wemmers, École de criminologie, l’Université de Montréal
Tim Waters, Indiana University, ‘Escaping Genocide’s Gravity’
Tiffany Atkins, University of Kentucky, ‘Abolishing the Family Policing System as Transitional Justice’
Kirsten Campbell, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, ‘The Challenge of Feminist Justice for Transitional Justice’
12:00 Lunch break
1:00 Closing Plenary: Mark Drumbl and Kirsten Fisher
Many thanks for the generous support from the following entities:
Canadian International Council, Saskatoon Branch
Pemberton Fund, Washington and Lee University
SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council), Government of Canada, Connection Grant
SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council), Government of Canada, Exchange Grant
University of Saskatchewan, Department of Political Studies
Washington and Lee University, Center for International Education