9:00-10:15
VIOLENCE, TRAUMA, AND MEMORY
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, basement floor
Moderator: Lynette Jackson, Associate Professor of African-
American Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies, UIC
• Mneesha Gellman (Department of Political Science, Northwestern
University): “Divergent Collective Memories: The Role of Apology
and Dialogue in Turkey's Democratization Process”
• Adnan Selimovic (Department of Social & Political Thought, York
University, Toronto): “Trauma and Childhood: Psycho-Politics of
Socialization and the Socio-Historical Ripples in Private Language
Formation in Bosnia”
• Rebecca Burns (Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame): “Silence and Un-Silencing: Trauma and
the Western Media Gaze”
10:30-11:45
SOVEREIGNTY AND WARCRAFT
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, basement floor
Moderator: Brandon Valeriano, Assistant Professor of Political
Science, UIC
• Shmulik Nili (Department of Political Science, University of Notre
Dame): "Democratic Peace, Silent War, and the Liberal 'Switch'"
• Mark Balawender (Department of Philosophy, Michigan State
University): “A Marxist and Schmittian Consideration of Military
Contractors"
• Phillip Wynn (Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame):
"The Myth of an Augustinian Just War"
TERRORISM
Writing Center Conference Room, Grant Hall, first floor
Moderator: Mohammed Errihani, Assistant Professor of English,
Purdue University-Calumet
• Alex Hobson (Department of History, Northwestern University):
“In Search of a 'Moslem Billy Graham', In Fear of 'Moslem
Extremism': The Muslim Brotherhood and American Near East
Foreign Relations, 1947-1954”
• Diana Therese Veloso (Department of Sociology, Loyola
University Chicago): “Normalizing Violence: The Abu Sayyaf in
Perspective”
• Fabrizio Ceglia (Department of Communications, Universidad de
Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid): “Mediated Global Terrorism: Changing
from a Local Strategy to an Ideology with Global Effects”
12:45-2:00
DOMESTIC WARRIORS AND PEACEMAKERS
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, basement floor
Moderator: Amalia Pallares, Associate Professor of Political
Science, UIC
• Lourdes Hurtado (Department of Latin American History,
University of Notre Dame): “The Beautiful but Dangerous Peruvian
Military Woman”
• Susy Sanchez (Department of Latin American History, University
of Notre Dame): “Mothering the Nation, Self-Representing as
Peacemaker: Looking through the Autobiography of Violeta Barrios
de Chamorro of Nicaragua”
• Tim Wong (Department of Comparative Literature, University of
California at Irvine): “War as the Continuation of Politics: Michel
Foucault and Julien Gracq on War and Peace”
FRAMES OF WAR
Writing Center Conference Room, Grant Hall, first floor
Moderator: Stephen Engelmann, Associate Professor of Political
Science, UIC
• Will Gartside and William Aungst (Department of Media Studies,
University of Illinois at Chicago): “Abuse Versus Torture at Abu
Ghraib: A Demonstration of Cultural Dissonance Reduction
Framing”
• Todd Cesaratto (Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana
University): “The Warrior Ethos in the German Intellectual
Tradition: Max Weber, Robert Musil, and Niklas Luhmann”
• Wen-Qing Ngoei (Department of History, Northwestern
University): “‘Jimmy Carter Against the U.S. War Machine: A
Cultural Analysis of Carter's Post-Presidential Diplomacy in North
Korea and Haiti in 1994”
2:15-3:30
HUMAN RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, basement floor
Moderator: Ralph Cintron, Associate Professor of English, UIC
• Jeremy Norwood (Department of Sociology, Michigan State
University): “Citizenship as the Embodiment of and the
Embeddedness in the Nation-State: Synthesizing World Systems
Theory and Graduated Citizenship to the Understand the Impact of
Globalization on Fundamental Human Rights”
• Daniel D. Farmer (Department of Philosophy, Marquette
University): “A Problem for the Language of Universal Human
Rights”
WAR IN FICTION AND FILM
Writing Center Conference Room, Grant Hall, first floor
Moderator: TBD
• Lia Deromedi (Department of English, Brooklyn College): “The
Language of Trauma in the Novel: An Identification of Warring
Selves in Primo Levi's If Not Now When”
• Renee Lee Gardner (Department of English, Western Michigan
University): “Occupation of Identity: Glenway Wescott's ‘Poor
Inferior’ Leda Helianos”
• Meryl Shriver-Rice (Department of Communications, University
of Miami): “Identity, Memory, and Knowledge Transference in Bier
and Sheridan's Brothers”
4:00-5:15
Keynote Address
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, basement floor
• Michael J. Allen, Assistant Professor of American History,
Northwestern University: “Missing, In Action: The Missing Dead in
U.S.-Vietnam Relations, 1973-2006”