{"id":1525,"date":"2011-02-11T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2011-02-11T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:02:07","slug":"testimony-oral-history-and-human-rights-documentation-conference-march-24-25-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2011\/02\/11\/testimony-oral-history-and-human-rights-documentation-conference-march-24-25-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony, Oral History, and Human Rights Documentation Conference: March 24-25, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Testimony, Oral History, and Human Rights Documentation:
\nA Conference Workshop at the University of Connecticut<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Human Rights Institute<\/a> and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 24 \u2013 Friday, March 25, 2011
\nHomer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Flame outside the Kigali Memorial Centre, Kigali, Rwanda. Photograph by Valerie Love, 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The first day of the conference will consist of a day-long\u00a0workshop for academics and practitioners currently engaged in oral history work on human rights themes.\u00a0<\/div>\n

On the second day, selected participants will present their work to a larger audience of students, faculty, librarians, and interested members of the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Non-UConn affiliated attendees are requested to register.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 The Thursday workshop is now full, but space is available for the Friday sessions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Schedule for Public Presentations on Friday, March 25, 2011:<\/strong>
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\n<\/strong>9:30 \u2013 10:00 AM:\u00a0 <\/strong>Tea and continental breakfast<\/em><\/p>\n

10:00 \u2013 10:05 AM:\u00a0 Welcome: Valerie Love<\/strong>, Curator for Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections, University of Connecticut<\/p>\n

10:05- 10:10 AM: Opening: Bruce Stave<\/strong>, Director, Oral History Office, University of Connecticut<\/p>\n

10:10 \u2013 11:00 AM: Presentation by Mary Marshall Clark<\/strong>, Director of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University, and co-founder of the of the September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project<\/p>\n

11:00 AM \u2013 12:00 PM: Presentation by Daniel Rothenberg<\/strong>, Professor of Practice and Executive Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs, Arizona State University, and former head of the Iraq History Project, which collected over 8,000 testimonies from Iraqis following the US invasion \u00a0<\/p>\n

12:00-1:00 PM:\u00a0 <\/strong>Lunch Break<\/em><\/p>\n

1:00- 1:45 P.M: Presentation by Lee Ann De Reus<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Women\u2019s Studies at Penn State Altoona, and 2009 Carl Wilkens Fellow with Genocide Intervention Network, who has interviewed women survivors of rape in Chad and the Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/p>\n

1:45-2:30 P.M: Presentation by Socheata Poeuv<\/strong>, Founder, Khmer Legacies, which documents stories from the Cambodian genocide<\/p>\n

2:45- 3:15 P.M: Closing: Emma Gilligan<\/strong>, Professor of History and Human Rights, University of Connecticut<\/p>\n

More information is available on the Dodd Research Center\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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