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A Right to Memory
Photo Credit: John McDonnell/The Washington Post
This event was co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and Jewish Studies Program, Penn State University.
Program Schedule
10:00 – 10:15 Introductory Notes – Kobi Kabalek, Noam Tirosh, and Anna Reading
10:15 – 11:15 First Session: The Right to Memory “On the Ground” – Examples from around the World
Moderator: Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State
Commentator: Ekaterina Haskins, Penn State
- “The Memory Belongs to No One and It Belongs to Everyone”: An Analysis of a Grassroots Claim to the Right to Memory
- Rebecca Kook, Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University
- Using and Abusing Memory Laws in Search for „Historical Truth” – the Case of the 2018 Amendments to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Act
- Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias and Grażyna Baranowska, the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
11:15 – 11:25 Break
11:25 – 12:50 Second Session: The Right to Memory, Human Rights, and the International Law
Moderator: Nergis Ertürk, Penn State
Commentator: Shmuel Lederman, Haifa University
- The Duty to Remember: Human Rights and the Shadow of the Two World Wars
- Jay Winter, Yale University
- Framing Memory Rights in International Law
- Anna Reading, King’s College, University of London
- The ‘Duty to Remember’ and the ‘Right to Memory’: Memory Politics and the Neoliberal Logic
- Lea David, School of Sociology, University College Dublin
12:50 – 13:00 Break
13:00 – 14:00 Third session: The Right to Memory, Technology, Media and Communications
Moderator: Kobi Kabalek, Penn State
Commentator: Nina Paulovicova, Athabasca University
- Memory, Rights and Sen’s “Capabilities Approach”
- Noam Tirosh and Amit Schejter, Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University
- The Right to Produce Memory: Social Memory Technology as Cultural Work
- Karen Worcman and Joanne Garde-Hansen, the Instituto Museu da Pessoa, Brazil and the Centre for Cultural & Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick
14:00 – 14:15 Final Remarks: Beyond A Human Right to Memory /Anna Reading