Testimony, Oral History, and Human Rights Documentation: A Conference Workshop
Thursday, March 24 and Friday, March 25, 2011
Student Union and Homer Babbidge Library
University of Connecticut
Facilitators:
Emma Gilligan, Assistant Professor of History and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
This event will bring together scholars and practitioners working with interviews to document the lives of refugees and survivors of conflicts in Iraq, Chechnya, Rwanda, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and communities in the United States, and allow them to present on their current work with very different populations, and discuss the successes and challenges that they face in their interviews with each of these communities. This workshop will create a unique opportunity for UConn to connect with other scholars and practitioners using interviews and oral history to document experiences during and in the aftermath of war, genocide, and other violations.
The first day of the conference workshop, Thursday, March 24, will consist of a faculty workshop with invited speakers to engage with colleagues documenting various human rights topics and endangered populations, by invitation only.
THE THURSDAY WORKSHOP SESSION IS NOW FULL.
The second day of the conference workshop, Friday, March 25, will consist of public sessions, where invited participants will present their work to students, faculty, librarians, archivists, oral historians, and interested members of the public. Registration requested for all non-UConn attendees. UConn students, faculty and staff do not need to pre-register.
Schedule for Public Presentations on Friday, March 25, 2011:
Video Theatre 2, Homer Babbidge Library, 2nd floor
9:30 – 10:00 AM: Tea and continental breakfast
10:00 – 10:05 AM: Welcome: Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections, University of Connecticut
10:05- 10:10 AM: Opening: Bruce Stave, Director, Oral History Office, University of Connecticut
10:10 – 11:00 AM: Presentation by Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University, and co-founder of the of the September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Presentation by Daniel Rothenberg, Professor of Practice and Executive Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs, Arizona State University, formerly the managing director of international projects at the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University College of Law, and fomer head of the Iraq History Project, which collected over 8,000 testimonies from Iraqis following the US invasion
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch Break
1:00- 1:45 P.M: Presentation by Lee Ann De Reus, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Penn State Altoona, and 2009 Carl Wilkens Fellow with Genocide Intervention Network, who has interviewed women survivors of rape in Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and founder of the Panzi Foundation to support the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, DR Congo
1:45-2:30 P.M: Presentation by Socheata Poeuv, Founder and CEO, Khmer Legacies, which documents stories from the Cambodian genocide
2:45- 3:15 P.M: Closing: Emma Gilligan, Professor of Russian History and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
For those coming from off-campus, information on getting to UConn, and an interactive campus map is available. The South Parking Garage is the best place for visitors to park; parking is $6 for the day..
For more information about the conference workshop, please contact Valerie Love.
Related Past Events:
"Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas into Practice"
Symposium held at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, March 3-4, 2008
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