Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Research Colloquium
Michaelmas Term 2008
3.00 - 4.45pm, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane
14 October
Introductory Session
21 October (Note change of time: 3.30 - 4.50pm at CRASSH)
Naoise McSweeney
Peace and Prosperity
4 November
Noam Leshem
'Contained Conflict': Rethinking terror and territory in Jerusalem
18 November
Terry Wright
Mobile media, community identity and contested histories in Ireland
RELATED TALKS ORGANISED BY OTHER GROUPS
23 October
The Dome of the Rock: contested faiths in Jerusalem (Slade Lecture)
Professor Robert Hillenbrand, FBA, University of Edinburgh
(5:00 pm, in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3)
30 October
The Heritage of Iraq: New Challenges
Dr. Limia Al Gilani
(1:00pm, South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)
11 November
Redefining environmental security: post-conflict vulnerability forecasting
Chad Briggs
(3.30pm, McDonlad Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)
13 November
Archaeology, Conservation and the post-conflict City
Dr. Caroline Sandes
(1:00pm, McDonlad Institute Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Site)
28 November
Embodying the dead: war remembrance and materiality on the Western Front
Dr Paola Filippucci
(2:00 pm, Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane)
Lent Term 09
Seminars
Tuesday 10 February, 3.00pm (CANCELLED)
Charles Gay, Programme Development Adviser, VSO
Peace-Building work in VSO: learning on methods, approaches and tools
Unfortunately we are having to cancel today's session because poor weather conditions have forced the cancellation of Charles Gay's flight out of Glasgow today.
We will try to reschedule for a date in the Easter term.
Tuesday 24 February, 3.00pm
Dr Madeleine Reeves, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change' at the University of Manchester
Solid state: materialising 'territorial integrity' in a post-Soviet borderland
Tuesday 10 March, 3.00pm
Charles Gay, Programme Development Adviser, VSO
Peace-Building work in VSO: learning on methods, approaches and tools
Wednesday 11 March 5.30-7.00pm
*Special Session on War, Ethics and Peacebuilding in the Former Yugoslavia*
Venue: Senior Common Room, Centre of International Studies, First Floor, 17 Mill Lane.
Dr Maja Petrovic-Steger
"On Biomedical, Political and Ethical Categories of Health in Postconflict Serbia"
Dr Marko Hoare
"Recreating a Multiethnic Country: Bosnia Since Dayton"
Chair: K John Drewienkiewicz, former Chief of Staff of the NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo, later Military Advisor to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Deputy Head of the Kosovo Verification Mission in the run-up to the 1999 NATO intervention in the Kosovo War.
Easter Term 2009
Tuesday 21 April at 2.30
George Wilkes, Founding Director, VHI Religion and Ethics in War and Peace Making Programme, Fellow of St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
The European Union and Religious Actors in Post-Conflict Situations
Tuesday 5 May at 3.00pm
Forest Metz, Judge Business Institute, University of Cambridge
Post-conflict Economic Development: the Practical Dilemmas Facing International Development Agencies and Multi-national Corporations.
Tuesday 19 May at 3.00pm
Tim Winter, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sociology, University of Sydney
At the Cliff's Edge: World Heritage, Conflict and Preah Vihear
Tuesday 2 June at 3.00pm
Yael Navaro-Yashin, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
The Unhomely Home and the Legal Uncanny: Expropriation and Affect in Northern Cyprus
This paper is a study of relations with the built environment and household objects in the aftermath of war and expropriation. The notion of 'the uncanny' is explored and expanded as both a spatial and a legal category.
Wednesday 17 June at 5.00pm
Speaker: Sofia Lemmytinen, College of Europe
Religious peace-builders and the European Union
The talk will be co-organised by the PCPC group and the VHI Religion and Ethics in War and Peace Making Programme.
