What are the special challenges of women-headed households in post-war Sri Lanka? And how can the recreation of material culture and daily practices cultivate health and identity in displaced communities? This session of the Possibilities for Peace Research Spotlight Series features talks by Arun Jentrick and Asma Khanani.
How does the work of truth commissions influence history teaching in schools? And how can we better understand claims of injustice in relation to the Fukushima disaster? This session of the Possibilities for Peace Research Spotlight Series features talks by Dr. Tadek Wojtych and Jeremy Tsai.
How is Spain's "pact of forgetting" still affecting the country, more than four decades after the end of the Franco dictatorship? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar's documentary The Silence of Others (El silencio de los otros, 2018).
Why was the International Criminal Court created and how does it function? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Barry Stevens' documentary Prosecutor (2010).
How can we rethink transitional justice as a bottom-up approach? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Christophe Gargot's documentary From Arusha to Arusha (2008).
How can we liberate our theoretical inquiries in ways that confront the global machinations of racialized subjection, expropriation, and immiseration? This workshop by Western Academy Postdoctoral Scholar Ola Osman interrogates global anti-blackness and white supremacy as enduring, foundational forces that choreograph and haunt the genealogy of international relations.
