Workshop on History and Theory of Violence in the 20th Century:
Emergence. Experience. Remembrance.
Collective Violence: Emergence. Experience. Remembrance.
26.09.2007-30. 09.2007, Sarajevo/ Bosnien und Herzegowina
Organizer:
Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research im Kulturwissenschaftl ichen Institut, Essen, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Sarajevo/ Bosnien und Herzegowina.
Tobias B€  ütow, Michaela Christ, Christian Gudehus, Veronika Springmann.
Funded by:
Gemeinn€  ützige Hertie Stiftung, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Sarajevo,
Hans B€  öckler Stiftung and K€  öhler Stiftung im Stifterverband f€  ür die
deutsche Wissenschaft.
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There has been an upsurge of new research on the escalation of violence and mass murder in National Socialism in the past two decades, expanding our knowledge of the period tremendously. Explanatory models, terminology, sources, research methods and
narrations are numerous and differentiated. The same is true of research on the transmission and discourse of memory and the forms memories of violent crimes in National Socialism can take. There have also been many, albeit less numerous, new studies of other cases of collective violence, for example in former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. The comparative study of processes of collective violence however, including the study of the cultural and psychological consequences of violence, is still in its infancy. The subjects of this research are extensive and complex, making comparativ study very demanding. This complexity often leads comparative study to be written off directly as unprofitable. In practice however current comparative (violence) research, particularly genocide research proves the theoretical and practical benefits comparative study can bring. Often, the
particularities and commonalities of genocidal processes only become clear in the process of comparison. Research from other disciplines and other countries on other areas and epochs can widen our perspective and expand our knowledge.
This meeting aims to initiate a forum for a next generation of researchers studying the processes of collective violence. The purpose is to gather the understanding of violence which has been gained by researchers from all parts of the world working in
different disciplines.
Collective violence is a complex and global phenomena. Research on collective violence should be the same.
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Wednesday, September 26
14.00 (Optional)
Guided city tour, ERICH RATHFELDER, war correspondent of the German newspaper €  ’³die tageszeitung€  ’´
20.00 OPENING
WENDY LOWER (Maryland/ USA)
Possibilities and pitfalls of comparative violence research - case
studies of Eastern Europe
Thursday, September 27
8.30 INTRODUCTION
9.00-10.45 EXPLAINIG VIOLENCE: THEORIES
DORIS GOEDL (Salzburg/ Austria)
About the absence of violence: Non-violent and violent system changes
ELISSA MAILAENDER KOSLOV (Paris/ France)
Power relations, violence, and cruelty: a new perspective on
perpetrators and Nazi concentration camps
11.15-13.00 CREATING VIOLENCE: DISCOURSES
CARL BETHKE (Berlin/ Germany)
Does history repeat? The Second World War and the war in Bosnia
1992-1995
STANISLAS BIGIRIMANA (Mutare/ Zimbabwe)
The fraternal twins in war: Exploring the narratives that shape the
ethnic consciousness of the Hutu and the Tutsi of Burundi and Rwanda
leading to the €  ’³Rationalisation of collective violence€  ’´
13.00 Lunch
15.15-17.00 DOING VIOLENCE: DYNAMICS
FRANK WOLFF (Cologne/ Germany)
From Odessa to Kielce? Comparing pogroms and anti-Jewish violence,
1881-1946
KAREN KR€  ÜGER (Berlin/ Germany)
€  ’¤They are not different from us, they just look different€  ’³: Colonial
Stereotypes and the ethnic dimension of violence in Rwanda 1994
18.00 Dinner
20.00 CINEMA AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE
€  ’³We are all neighbours€  ’´, Norway 1993, 52 min. Director: Tone Bringa
(Bergen/Norway) . Tone Bringa, anthropologist and documentary
filmmaker, will be present for a discussion after the screening.
Friday, September 28
EXCURSION to Srebrenica and Potocari
MERCED SMAILOVIC and ANNE BITTERBERG, Guided Tour and Lecture.
Saturday, September 29
9.00-10.45 WOMEN, MEN AND VIOLENCE:
PERCEPTIONS, ROLES AND SUFFERINGS
DOREEN ESCHINGER (Budapest/ Hungary)
Women killing Women: Women Concentration Camps in national-
socialistic Germany and the Perception of the female Victim
OLIVERA SIMIC (Melbourne/ Australia)
Gender side of Reconciliation: Women in the Aftermath
11.15-13.00 REMEMBERING VIOLENCE (I): MEMORIALS
NIKOLAI VUKOV (Sofia/ Bulgaria)
The signs of violence and the violence of signs: memorials to victims
of mass atrocities in Eastern Europe after 1945
NADIA CAPUZZO DERKOVIC (Geneva/ Switzerland)
(Non)Existence of monuments dedicated to the siege in Sarajevo
13.00 Lunch
14.30 REMEMBERING VIOLENCE (II): WORDS
MONIKA PALMBERGER (Oxford/ England)
The transmission and silencing of collective violence in the divided
town of Mostar
STEFAN IONESCO (Massachusetts/ USA)
The dynamic concept of resistance in post-genocide remembrance:
Revisiting the narratives of holocaust and gulag survivors from Romania
SABINA CEHAJIC (Sussex/ England)
Dealing with the past and facing the future: social-psychologica l
precursors of intergroup reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
17.00 FINAL DISCUSSION
Comment: GABI BABIC (Konstanz/ Germany), DANIEL UZIEL (Jerusalem/
Israel)
18.00-19.00 PERSPECTIVES? Follow-up-Workshop and Networking
19.00 Dinner
20.30 AFTER THE WAR: THE PRESENCE OF THE MISSING PEOPLE
MIRSAD TOKACA (Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo, Director)
KATHERYNE BOMBERGER (International Commission on Missing Persons,
Director)
contact:
CMR im Kulturwissenschaftl ichen Institut Essen
Dr. Christian Gudehus
Goethestr. 31
45128 Essen
Germany
0049.201.7204. 116
sarajevo-2007@ web.de
www:
http://www.memory- research. de/cms/k145. Workshop- Collective- Violence. htm
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