The 7th Annual New School for Social Research Sociology and Historical Studies Joint Conference
History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Spaces of Memory
April 23rd-24th, 2004

Friday April 23rd
4:00 - 5:50 PM
Sacred Space, Ritual, and Narratives of Resistance - Machinist Conference Room Fences and Piers: A Disappearing Queer Space in Manhattan - Benjamin Shepard, Hunter College and the City University of New York

Sanctification and Commodification in Mangwoltong Cemetery in Gwangju - George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Resistance Between the Lines: Popular Music and Dictatorship in Brazil in Uruguay - Denise Milstein, Columbia University

Reclaiming the Holidays: Celebration, Memorial, and the Creating of Temporal Boundaries - Stevphen Shukaitis, New School Commentator: Sarah Daynes, New School

The Politics of Memory in States of Emergency - Wolff Conference Room Martyr Funerals and the Ritual Contestation of Political Death in Palestine - Lori Allen, University of Chicago

Muslim Routes: Memory, Desire, and the Politics of Knowledge - Zareena Grewal, University of Michigan

Absent Monuments and Appropriated Memory Places: Palestinian Commemorative Spaces in Lebanon - Laleh Khalili, Columbia University

Contesting the State: The History of a Massacre Memorial - Lucia Volk, San Francisco State University
Commentator: Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University (tentative)

Imagined Communities and Remembered Violence: Foundations of the Nation- Room 215
The Crossroads of History and Memory: Histories of Collaboration and Narratives of Resistance in Post Colonial South Korea - Kathryn Boodry, New School

The Construction of Israeli Collective Memory of the Holocaust in the Formative Years of Israel -
Michal Aharony, New School

Gunter Grass and the German Collective Memory* - Jaroslava Gajdosova, New School

Rape and Collective Memory - Adhimoolam Vetrievel Murugan, New School
Commentator: Pradeep Jeganathan, New School

6:00-8:00 PM - Opening Plenary: Swayduck Auditorium
Spaces of Surrender
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swathmore University
-Commentary and Roundtable Discussion with: Jeffrey Goldfarb and Vera Zolberg, New School

Saturday April 24th

8:00 - 9:00 Welcoming, Coffee and Bagels

9:00 - 10:50
Memory, Meaning, and the Body: Social-Medical Implications - Machinist Conference Room
Genealogy as Social Memory: Making the Public Personal - Karla Hackstaff, Northern Arizona University

A Foucauldian Interpretation of Genetico-Medicine as an Invisibility Visibility - Neslihan Cevik, Arizona State University

Battle Tactics of False Memory Syndrome Foundation in the "Memory Wars" - Noel Packard, New School

"Safe Space" and Contested Memories: Survivor Movements and the use of Space and Time in Conflict - Thomas DeGloma, Rutgers University Commentator: TBA

Spectres of War and Revolution: Post-Cold War State Making - Wolff Conference Room
Modernity's Ruins: The Destruction of Old Prishtina, ca. 1950s, the Political Economy of Spatial Violence, and the Prehistory of "Warchitecture" - Andrew Herscher, University of Illinois-Champaign

The Role of National Memory in the Breakdown of the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia; Jan Palach, Martin Šmíd and the Collapse of Communist Czechoslovakia - Marcel Tomasek, Masaryk University

Imre Nagy and the Unsettled Past: The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Hungary - Karl Benziger, Rhode Island College

Memory-Work and the Gulag: the Politics of Memory in the Russian Experience - Rachel Schroeder, University of Michigan
Commentator: Andrew Arato, New School

Painting Outside the Spaces: New Approaches to Old Problems - Room 215 Witness Testimony and its Ethical Relation to History - Jennifer Scuro, New School and Fordham University

Matters Material: Rachel Whiteread on Houses and the Things Inside Them - Shelley Hornstein, York University

The Land Still Claims Us: On the Psychopolitical Dynamics of the American Dream - Adam Rosen, New School

Traces of the Stillborn? The Governance of the Rule of Social Law - Richard Weiner, Rhode
Island College
Commentator: Oz Frankel, New School

11:00 - 12:50
Re-Membering the Dead: Constructing Family, Community, and the State - Room 215 Excavating Sites of Memory: An Old Family Story of Frontier Violence - Andie Turcher, Columbia University

The Death of Michael Farmer: Murder, Media, and New York Neighborhoods in the Fifties - Robert Snyder, Rutgers University

Mo(u)rning in America: Reagan, Bitburg, and the Rights of Memory - Tim Raphael, Rutgers University

Executions Ideal and Real: Nineteenth Century Perspectives in Public Executions in China - Kathleen Poling, University of California-Berkeley Commentator: Frank Adloff, New School

Inscribing the Body: The Corporeal Aspects of Fragmentation - Wolff Conference Room
Between Minority Consciousness, Mass Culture, Hope and Despair: A Tentative Theoretical Exploration Mediated Bodies in Communication and Community - Chris Smith and Malini Cadambi, New School

Violence and Defiant Bodies - Greg Goldberg and Craig Willse, City University of New York

Violent Seductions: The Mnemonics of the Body in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University

Testimony of the Body: Negotiating Silence in San Francisco Jail Number 8- Elizabeth Spackman, University of Iowa
Commentator: TBA

How to Do Things with Media: Transmissions and Representations - Machinist Conference Room
The Everyday Production of the Social Order: Practices of Screen Space and the Historical Narration of Late Capitalism - Iván Zatz-Diaz, City University of New York

Constellations of Home: Korean Adoptees Making Place and Writing "Home" in Cyberspace - Sonjia Hyon, University of Minnesota

History and Memory: Visual Media and the Japanese American Internment in World War II - Deirdre Boyle, New School
Commentator: Stevphen Shukaitis, New School

Architectures, Rememberances, and Public Space: Cities and Rententions - CEPA Conference Room
Controlling New York's Bonus Plazas - Gregory Smithsimon, Columbia University

Enacting the City / Remembering the Nation: Postwar Reconstruction of Warsaw - David Snyder, Princeton University

Everywhere But the Ground: The Spatial Politics of Memory in Cape Town and New York City - Steve Theberge, Columbia University
Commentator: Vyjayanthi Rao, New School

1:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch in New York City

2:00 - 3:50
Erasure, Effacements, and Literalizations: Contentions of Modernity - Wolff Conference Room
"Business as Usual": the 1920 Wall Street Explosion and the Politics of Forgetting - Beverly Gage, Columbia University

The Chaos Factor: Geography, Systematicity, and Space in Ghetto Guatemala, 1944-1962 - John Thomas Way, Yale University

Reflections on Human Rights and Collective Memory in Mexico: The Aguas Blancas Massacre - Marisol Lopez-Menendez, New School

The Haunting Stories of the Red Elevators and Bloody Triangle: Cultural Memory, Contentious Actions, and the Socio-Spatial Development of the Two Major Public Institutions in Bangkok After the Siamese Revolution, 1932-2004 - Keerati Chenpitayaton, New School
Commentator: Joseph Varga, New School

The Nation Remembers: The Problematic of Collective Memory and National Identity - CEPA Conference Room
A Site of Memory for the Italian Republic: The Ardeantine Caves Memorial in Rome - Guri Schwarz, University of Bologna

Archaeology and Symbolic Violence in Modern Greece - Despina Lalaki, New School

National Memory and Moral Catastrophe - Ross Poole, Macquarie University

Competing Narratives in Commemorative Sites: Mourning the Massacred in the Multiethnic Japanese Empire - Jin-hee Lee, University of Urbana-Champaign
Commentator: Alex Cuc, New School

. . . . And Justice for All: Negations, Legalities and Racial Violence - Room 215
Civil Rights, Violence, and 1967 Riot in Newark* - Kevin Mumford, University of Iowa

Re-remembering the New York City Draft Riots of 1863: Contested Spaces of Black Community and Local Neighborhood - Carla Peterson, University of Maryland

The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Violence, Memory, and the Spaces of Legal Reconciliation - Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Violence, Memory, and Brown vs. the Board of Education* - Sarah Hoiland, New School
Commentator: Orville Lee, New School

Urban Prosthetics: Cities, Objects, and Narratives of Identity - Machinist Conference Room
Documenting Art: The Central American Diaspora in Los Angeles - Ester Hernandez, California State University Los Angeles

Structures and Spaces: The Reform of Practices in Early Mexican Public Spaces - Cristina Cielo, University of California-Berkeley

Remembering Violence, Enforcing Spatial/Narrative Compliance: The Construction of 'Safe" Spatial Practice in the Divided City - Karen Lysaght, Dublin Institute of Technology
Commentator: Jennifer Scuro, New School and Fordham University

4:00 - 5:30 - Keynote Address: Swayduck Auditorium
The Elephant in the Room: Towards a Sociology of Denial
Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University
-Commentary and Discussion with: Eli Zaretsky and Sarah Daynes, New School

6:00 PM Reception in Wolff Conference Room