The Culture of Reconstruction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Aftermath of Crisis

Wednesday, 25 June 2008 to Friday, 27 June 2008
Location: New Hall and St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge

DRAFT SCHEDULE (4 June)

Wednesday, 25 June

FREE PUBLIC INAUGURAL LECTURE
Venue: Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall (Huntingdon Rd.)

19.00 - 19.30

19.30 - 21.00

Registration (of the 26-27 conference delegates)

Welcome by Professor Mary Jacobus, Director of CRASSH

LORD PADDY ASHDOWN
After Iraq - shall we ever intervene again?
Inaugural lecture and discussion

Discussion chaired by Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge

Thursday, 26 June	THE CULTURE OF RECONSTRUCTION Venue: Octagon Theatre, St. Chad’s site, St. Catherine’s College (Grange Rd.)
8.45 - 9.15	Registration
9.15 - 9.30	Welcome
9.30 - 11.00	Stakeholders and the Impact of Intervention Moderator: MATEJA PETER, University of Cambridge Discussant: PIETER VAN HOUTEN, University of Cambridge MAJA NENADOVIC, European Studies Department, University of Amsterdam MARTIN TISNE, TIRI, Network for Integrity in Reconstruction (NIR) Integrity after war: Why reconstruction assistance fails to deliver to expectations? BRIONY JONES, University of Manchester The Relational Context of Citizenship in Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina
11.00 - 11.20	Coffee Break
11.20 - 13.00	The Politics of Reconciliation Moderator: ELEANOR O’GORMAN, Freelance Researcher and Consultant SEIDU ALIDU, Leeds Metropolitan University The Ghana National Reconciliation Commission: Reconciliation or cultural reconstruction? CHELSEA PAYNE, University of Oxford Commission, State, International Community, and Liberia’s transitional justice process SOFIA T. SHWAYRI, University of Oxford The July 2006 Israel-Hizballah War: The Rupture between War and Postwar Planning
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.30	Post-conflict spaces: challenging the boundaries of international relations Moderator: JOHN HEATHERSHAW, University of Exeter FLORIAN P. KÜHN, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg Aid, opium, and the state of rents in Afghanistan: competition, cooperation, or cohabitation? ALEX VEIT, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Figuration of Uncertainty: Armed Groups and ‘Humanitarian’ Military Intervention in Ituri (DRCongo) DARIA ISACHENKO, Humboldt University – Berlin Symbolic scramble for statehood: the cases of Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.30	Mourning and Memorialisation Moderator: PAOLA FILIPPUCCI, University of Cambridge Discussant: DUNCAN BELL, University of Cambridge KARIN FIERKE, International Relations, University of St. Andrews HEONIK KWON, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh New ancestral shrines after the cold war CRISTINA SANCHEZ-CARRETERO, CSIC, Madrid Public Grieving after the March 11 Bombings in Madrid: Spontaneous Shrines as Performance
20:00-20:30	Wine reception (CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane)
20.30 - 21.30	Documentary Film Evening Venue: (CRASSH) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Moderator: CHANDRA MORRISON, University of Cambridge Discussant: LIZ MERMIN, documentary maker and producer From North to South: Sudan's displaced head home Aftershock: Rebuilding after the Asian earthquake Losing Hope - Women in Afghanistan

Friday, 27 June	THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE Venue: Octagon Theatre, St. Chad’s site, St. Catherine’s College (Grange Road)
9.00 - 10.45	Interpreting Crisis in the Media and the Arts Moderator: ANNA DIMITRÍJEVICS, University of Cambridge Discussant: ANDY WHITEHEAD, Director of BBC World Service Trust India Discussant: SUZANNE FISHER, Radio projects from Rwanda JAMES THOMPSON, University of Manchester, Founder “In Place of War” BROOKE LYNN MCGOWAN, University of Cambridge SIOBHAN CAMPBELL, Poet and Senior Lecturer at Kingston University
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee Break
11.15 - 13.00	Conflict in Cities and the Contested State Moderator: LISA SMIRL, University of Cambridge Discussant: NOAM LESHEM, London Consortium MAXIMILIAN GWIAZDA, University of Cambridge Digging up neo-biblical narratives: Archaeology and the proliferation MILENA KOMAROVA, Department of Sociology, Queens University Belfast Shared Space in ‘Post-Conflict’ Belfast and the Limits of ‘A Shared Future’ CRAIG LARKIN, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter Reconstructing and Deconstructing Beirut: Space, Memory and Lebanese Youth
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.45	The Politics of Reconstruction: Identity, Religion and Cultural Heritage Moderator: DACIA VIEJO ROSE, University of Cambridge Discussant: JOE L. NASR, Independent researcher and lecturer TIM WINTER , University of Sydney Post-Conflict heritage: expanding the frontiers of ‘restoration’ KRISJON OLSON, University of California-Berkeley After the Peace: The New Ethics of Humanitarianism in Post-War Guatemala LIORA DANAN, Yale University U.S. Government Engagement with Religion in Conflict-Prone Settings
15.45 - 16.30	Presentations from IGOs & NGOs MARIE LOUIS STIG SØRENSEN, CRIC, University of Cambridge SILJA HALLE, Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch (PCDMB), UNEP PETER DIXON, CONCORDIS LEILA DE BRUYNE, Flying Kites – Kenya
16.30 - 17.00	Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.00	Round Table of Experts and Rapporteurs The culture of reconstruction and the reconstruction of culture: avenues for future work and collaborations ELEANOR O’GORMAN, Freelance Researcher and Consultant, formerly with UNDP YUDHISHTHIR RAJ ISAR Jean Monnet Professor at The American University of Paris, Maître de Conférences at Sciences Po and President of Culture Action Europe GHANIM WAHIDA, Archaeologist and university lecturer with over 30 years experience working in Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
18.00	Thanks and Closure
	PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Venue: Octagon Theatre, St. Chad’s site, St. Catherine’s College (Grange Road) Curator: CHANDRA MORRISON, University of Cambridge JUAN CARLOS ORRANTIA, Yale University ReMEMBERING VENECIA. Moments of the Presence of Absence in Colombia

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The Culture of Reconstruction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Aftermath of Crisis

DRAFT SCHEDULE (4 June)