The Troublesome Dead. Governing Bodies, Caring for Souls
2024-05-30 09:00 - 2024-05-31 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Campus Condorcet - Bâtiment Recherche Nord - , Aubervilliers, , ,
Day 1 – Thursday May 30th , 2024

9.00 Coffee and warm-up
9.30 General introduction
Nicolas Fischer (CNRS/CESDIP)
Florence Galmiche (Université Paris Cité/IUF/CCJ)
Milena Jakšić (CNRS/CEMS)
Carolina Kobelinsky (CNRS/LESC)

Session 1. Dead Bodies And The Transmission of
Memory
Chair: Caroline Callard (EHESS/CéSor)
10- 10.30 Heonik Kwon (Trinity College, Cambridge) : The Language of the Human Remains – From the Forensic Fields of the Korean War.
10.30- 11.00 Natacha Nsabimana (University of Chicago) : Landscapes of Memory: Burying the Dead of 1994 in Rwanda.
11.15-11.45 Break
11.30-12.00 Stéphane Michonneau (Université de Lille/IRHIS) : Memories and heritage of human remains from mass massacres: case studies (Belchite, Oradour-sur-Glane, Distomo).
12.00-1 pm Discussion by Grégory Delaplace (EPHE/GSRL) and Nada Afiouni (Normandie Université-Le Havre/GRIC).

1.00-2.30 Lunch Break

Session 2. The Treatment of Human Remains As Ethical Practice
Chair: Florence Galmiche, UP Cité/IUF/CCJ
Location : Centre de colloques (conference center), Place du Front populaire, Aubervilliers, auditorium 150.
2.30 Projection of So Long Asleep. Waking the Ghosts of A War. (David. W. Plath, 2016).
Introduction and discussion by Chung Byung-Ho (Hanyang University).

4.30 Break

5.00- 6.00 Keynote
Francisco Ferrándiz (CSIC, Spain) : The Valley of Cuelgamuros in Its Labyrinth.

Day 2 – Friday May 31th, 2024

Session 3. State Control Of Dead Bodies And Its Challenges.
Chair: Linda Haapajärvi, University of Tampere.
9.30-10.00 Denyer Graham Willis (University of Cambridge/CDS) : Beetles, Bones, Dictatorship and Democracy: The Spaces, Institutions and Materiality of Brazil’s Ongoing Disappeared.
10.00-10.30 Sélim Smaoui (Unversité Catholique de Louvain/ISPOLE) : A New Political Activism? Critique and Truth in Digital Counter-Forensic Investigations.
10.30-11.10 Break
11.10-11.30 Anne Guillou (CNRS/LESC) : State monopoly over the bodies of the victims after the Khmer Rouge regime and private efforts to ‘demonopolize’ them since the 2000s.
11.30-12.30 Discussion by Sepideh Parsapajouh (CNRS/CéSor) and Naomi Pendle (University of Bath/CDAS).

12.30-2 pm Lunch

Session 4. Moral Concerns And Repair.
Chair: Valérie Robin Azevedo (Université Paris Cité/URMIS)
2pm-2.30 Tim Allen (London School of Economics/ID) : Sacrificed babies and the politics of moral panics in Uganda.
2.30-3.00 Anne Carol (Université d’Aix-Marseille/TELEMMe) : From pit to pit: funerary treatment and social confrontation after the Courrières disaster (1906).
3.00-3.30 Break

3.30-4.00 Yukiko Koga (Yale University) : Unrepayable Debt: Corporeal Economy of Imperial Reckoning in East Asia.
4.00-5.00 Discussion by Andrea Ceriana Mayneri (CNRS/IMAF) and Elisabeth Anstett-Gessat (Université d’Aix-Marseille/ADES).

6 pm Cocktail

Cortem’s final conference on Troublesome Bodies is funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, a program of the French Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation.
Its is supported by the Institut Universitaire de France, the Université Paris Cité, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and by four CNRS research centers – the Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (LESC), the Centre Chine Corée Japon (CCJ), the Centre d’étude des Mouvements Sociaux (CEMS) and the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales (CESDIP). Institutional partners also include Université de Versailles St Quentin, Cergy-Paris Université, Université Paris-Nanterre, the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, and the French Ministry of Justice.
