CFP: War and Memory

The University of Oregon School of Law invites proposals for a symposium on War and Memory: Bearing Witness to Loss in Everyday Life to take place October 18-20, 2012. The symposium brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars whose work sheds light on the intricate connection between war and memory in Africa and Latin America. The questions that animate this symposium build upon the Oregon Review of International Law’s previous gatherings that have provided a space for critical yet constructive voices in international law. Whereas War and Memory will interrogate “time with a retrospective lens,” previous symposia have investigated notions of space and scale and the confluence of Human Rights and the Environment. The symposium will carry on ORIL’s critical tradition evidenced in “Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): Capitalism and the Common Good.” Proposals should be submitted electronically by June 15, 2012 to WarAndMemory2012 AT gmail.com.