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Material traces of mass death: the exhumed object

Traces matérielles de la mort de masse : l’objet exhumé

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Published on Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Abstract

Ce colloque se propose de prolonger l’exploration des enjeux posés par l’exhumation des fosses communes aux XXe et XXIe siècles. Traces des violences de masse, produites dans le cadre d’affrontements guerriers, de génocides ou de répression politique, ces fosses communes suscitent un intérêt inédit lié non seulement à l’intensité des violences extrêmes qui ont traversé le siècle dernier mais aussi à l’épanouissement de la figure victimaire associé au développement de nouvelles expertises scientifiques (archéologie funéraire, médecine légale, identification ADN etc.). D’autre part, la réflexion se concentre non pas sur les restes humains des victimes, mais sur les objets exhumés, trop souvent laissés à la marge.

Announcement

Program

Wednesday, Nov. 4

Faculté de Médecine – Amphi Toga – Aix Marseille Université

9 h 30 : Arrival, registration participants

10h : Official Opening

  • Georges LEONETTI, Dean of Aix Marseilles Faculty of Medicine
  • Michel SIGNOLI, Head of UMR ADES - Research and Teaching Unit

Introduction

  • Sophie BABY, Université de Bourgogne, Centre Georges Chevrier
  • François-Xavier NERARD, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR IRICE

10h30 : Session 1, Exhumed objects between past and present

  • Layla RENSHAW, Kingston University : Objects, Memory and Imaginative Assemblages from the Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
  • François-Xavier NÉRARD, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR IRICE What is to be done with the objects from Soviet Mass graves ?

12 h : Lunch

14h : Session 2, Objects as material traces of conflicts

  • Louise LOE et Kate BRADY, Okford Archeology : Objects from the site of Fromelles, traces from the First World War
  • Michael LANDOLT et Lucie GEANT CAPARROS, Pôle d’archéologie interdépartemental rhénan et Communauté d’agglomération du Douaisis : What is the status of the objects found in graves from soldiers of the last wars in France ?
  • Lourdes HERRASTI et Jimi JIMENEZ, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi : Associated Objects exhumed from the Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
  • Vladimir MOTREVITCH, Académie juridique de l’Oural – Ekaterinburg : Exhumation of the Remains of Bodies of the World War II Prisoners of War in the Ural Region: Legal Base, Sources, Methods and Results of the Search and Exhumation Works

17h30 : Session 3, Traces, absences and destructions

  • Jane E. KLINGER, Holocaust Memorial Museum / University of Delaware : When So Few Traces Remain

18h15 : Movie Archeologia, a film by Andrzej Brzozowski, introduced and commented by Annette Wieviorka (S-IRICE, CNRS)

Thursday, Nov. 5

Faculté de Médecine – Amphi Toga – Aix Marseille Université

9h30 : Session 4, Objects as a proof ?

  • Admir JUGO, University of London : Claims of Ownership - Artefacts and personal effects from mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina as symbols of persons, forensic evidence or public relics?
  • Florence RASMONT, Université Libre de Bruxelles : Clothes and accessories of the victims of the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda : between judicial evidences and private mourning
  • Keith SILIKA, Staffordshire University : Mass Graves in Zimbabwe
  • Yuri SHAPOVAL, Académie des Sciences – Kiev : Material Traces of the mass Stalinist Purges in Bykivnia

12 h 30 : Lunch

14h30 : Session 5, Appropriations

  • Dorothée DELACROIX, Université Jean Jaurès – Toulouse : Opening mass graves in Peru : Should the discovered objects be « Sent to heaven » or commercialized ?
  • Zuzanna DZIUBAN, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies: Atopic objects : the uncanny travels of the things stolen from mass graves

16h30 : Session 6, Objects from catastrophes

  • Gaelle CLAVANDIER, Université Jean Monnet - Saint Etienne : Memorial Traces (bodies and objects) from two plane crashes - Chamonix (1950 - Malabar Princess and 1966 - Kangchenjunga)
  • Frédéric DOZIERES, Section de recherches de la gendarmerie des transports aériens de Roissy CDG

18 h 00 : Keynote Speaker : Jan Ramirez - 9-11 Memorial New York : Memorial traces of life, death, violence and history at « Ground Zero ».

Friday, Nov. 6

MUCEM, a Museum for Europe and the Mediterranean : http://www.mucem.org/en/home-page

9 h 30 : Session 7, Reinvested objects : exhumed objects and art

  • Margarita SAONA, University of Illinois, Chicago : Touching the Trace of the Real
  • Stephenie YOUNG, Salem State University : Forensic Topographies: Photography, Aesthetics and the Post-Yugoslav Document
  • Christopher NELSON, University of Chapel Hill - North Carolina : From Among the Dead: The Rhythms of Sacrifice in Contemporary Japan

Concluding Remarks and Discussion

12h Lunch

Afternoon : A Visit of MUCEM

Places

  • Amphi Toga - Faculté de Médecine de la Timone, 27 boulevard Jean Moulin
    Marseille, France (13005)

Date(s)

  • Wednesday, November 04, 2015
  • Thursday, November 05, 2015
  • Friday, November 06, 2015

Keywords

  • fosse, objet, génocide, masse, violence, guerre, victime

Contact(s)

  • Mathieu Jestin
    courriel : labexguerres [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Laëtitia Delouis
    courriel : laetitia [dot] delouis [at] univ-amu [dot] fr

Information source

  • Mathieu Jestin
    courriel : labexguerres [at] gmail [dot] com

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

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« Material traces of mass death: the exhumed object », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, September 29, 2015, https://calenda.org/339775

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