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• 30 nov 2012

  Dijon

  Call for papers - History

  Time Heals All Wounds

  Resisting the Authority of History in the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism

  The journée d’étude (research day), “Time Heals Time Heals All Wounds: Resisting the Authorityof History in the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism” will be held on May 31, 2013 at the University of Burgundy (Dijon). Papers will explore Benedict Anderson’s concept of the “reassurance of fratricide” in order to study how internal national conflicts are rewritten in the fields of history, literature and education to create an apparently harmonious national narrative.

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• 29 jui 2012

  Kigali

  Call for papers - Education

  Rwanda: Genocide and Reconstruction

  A journey through the Genocide of Tutsi

  Organized in Rwanda by the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center. The Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center based in Kigali, Rwanda continues their two/three-week US/Rwanda exchange program in order to deepen students’, researchers’, and artists’ knowledge of the Rwandan genocide. In the last years, the program started in 2004 has enabled teachers and students from Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, Singapore, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, and the USA to develop narratives that engage questions of social justice, conflict resolution, and peace building. The program has involved theater artists, filmmakers, academicians, researches, and students from various disciplines and countries, whose practice engages questions of peace building.

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