[van-announce] Event reminder: Reconstructing Historical Memory in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones -- May 25, 2011

[Sara Koopman]

* please forward to lists!* (and note changes to speakers, below)

   *Upcoming Event*

International Perspectives on Reconstructing
Historical Memory in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones

*Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- 3:30pm
*A reception will follow.

Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room
6476 NW Marine Drive, UBC, Vancouver

Download the poster
here<http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/sites/liu/files/Events/2011_May25_Historical-Memory-Workshop2.pdf>.
Please post!
Please RSVP at <http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/events/register.htm>
www.ligi.ubc.ca/events/register.htm

Please join us for an open panel session with historical memory workers from
Colombia, Bosnia, Lebanon and Liberia. Panelists will discuss a variety of
strategies to reconstruct historical memory in settings of ongoing violence
or post conflict settings, and their efforts to promote justice and healing
in their countries.

With a change in speakers due to visa issues:


   - *Colombia: Jesus Abad Colorado*, Colombian Historical Memory
Commission<http://www.memoriahistorica-cnrr.org.co/>
   - *Bosnia: Vesna Terselic*, Documentahttp://www.refugeelawproject.org/
   - *Uganda: Moses Okello*, Refugee Law Project

 The panel is part of a broader workshop that will bring together
participants from Bosnia, Burundi, Canada, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Indonesia, Peru, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe to discuss the various
memory initiatives in their countries and to develop a toolkit of historical
memory methods that can be used around the world (this portion of the
workshop is closed to the public).



*This workshop is a collaboration between the Transitional Justice Network
at the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Historical Memory Commission
of Colombia.
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