RCHA's "Repairing the Past" Seminar Series
directed by Jochen Hellbeck (History, Rutgers) and Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan (History, Rutgers)
Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings will be held on Tuesdays from 11--1:00pm via in person and virtually
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Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule
January 24 - Arlene Stein, "Forgetting Fascisms: Collective Amnesia and the Production of American Exceptionalism”
January 31 - Iiulia Skubytska, “Security Threat or Survival Mechanism: Eastern Ukrainians' Memories of the Soviet Past at the Time of War”
February 7 - - Alison Hight, “‘Home Rule’ as a Reparative Discourse in British Politics”
February 14 - Aries Li, “Repairing the Past: Chinese Grassroots Memory Actors and the Restoration and Expansion of the Cemetery for Aviation Martyrs in Nanjing”
February 21 - Paul Mercandetti, "Commemorating the Fiery Villages: The Khatyn Memorial Complex"
February 28 - Viola Lasmana, "Shadow Archives: Indonesian Women's Collectives and Ethics of Collaboration"
March 7 - Leslie Alexander, "“How We Got Here:” Slavery and the Making of the Modern Police State"
Spring Break
March 21 - Joint Seminar with Rutgers High School Teachers Institute
March 24 - Special Seminar with Susan Neiman, 11am-1pm
March 28 - Daria Khlevnyuk, "Russian ‘old left,’ the lobal rise of illiberal memory, and conspiratorial narratives online"
April 4 - Halide Velioglu, "Repair in Post-war Sarajevo"
April 11 - Anna Richey, "Contesting Geographies of Rape: Radical Feminist Activism on College Campuses"
April 18 - Mariia Gulakova, "Addressing Pogrom Violence in the Public Sphere: Jews in the First Russian Parliament, 1906"
April 25 - double session
- 11am: Catalina Muñoz Rojas, "Remaking History for Building Just Futures: Public History and Transitional Justice in Colombia"
- 1pm: Michael Jirik, “Black thought in slavery's colleges”
