Workshop
Social Space, Memory and Conflict in Colombia
16.11.2018, 10.00-18.30
Museum der Kulturen Basel
A joint event of the Seminar of Social Anthropology, University of Basel / Museum der KulturenBasel and the Swiss Society of Americanists with the support of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Since the peace agreements, Colombia has become the focus of research related to conflict and postconflictsituations and also receives a growing attention in public perceptions. The country has been frequently associated with endemic violence in the popular imaginary, in public media and academic research. Here, space has long been interpreted as contested in a physical sense that means as a territory over which is fought or where violence occurs. However, this perspective on space is limited to seeing it as a resource to be owned and exploited.
In contrast, the ‘spatial turn’ in the social sciences and humanities provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between social space (cities/ landscapes etc), conflict (dynamics, actors, urban resistance etc) and popular imaginations (memory/ narratives etc.) in much greater depth.
The workshop is thought as a platform for recent research projects about Columbia based in Switzerland. We propose to address these three overarching concepts of conflict, space and memory as a main window to allow for a broad scope of presentations that might be interlinked and speak to each other.
For this workshop, we intend to create connections and exchange within the Colombia-related academic world within Switzerland and abroad while bringing diverse disciplinary backgrounds, regional interests and historical and contemporary perspectives together.
Friday, 16.11.2018
10.00 –10.30 Welcome Note and Introduction: Anna Schmid (DirektorinMKB), Silke Oldenburg (EthnologischesSeminar) & Alexander Brust (MKB)
10.30 –11.00 Keynote Austin Zeiderman (London School of Economics): Concrete Peace: Building Security in Colombia
11.00 –11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.00 Session I: Conflict in Colombia
Adolfo León González (Universidad del Valle): De la Negación a la Vergüenza: El Papel de las Autoridades Civiles y Militares durante la Expansión de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) en el Valle del Cauca Colombiano
Attilio Bernasconi (University of Lausanne): The ELN as an Emancipatory Space? When the Guerrilla Plays the Role of the State
Joakim Kreutz & Enzo Nussio (ETH Zürich): Destroying Trust in Government. Effects of a Broken Pact among Colombian Ex-Paramilitaries
13.00-13.30 Coffee Break
13.30-15.00 Session II: Memory in Colombia
Odile Cuénoud González (Universityof Lausanne): La Nostalgia de las Armas: la Cuestión Identitariay la Discriminación en el Proceso de DDR en Colombia
Carlos Mario Jiménez Holguín (Museode Antioquia): De Salas de Exposición a Espacios de Hospitalidad: la Experiencia del Proyecto Museo + Comunidad
Liliana Gómez-Popescu (University of Zürich): The Landscape as Archive: Photography and Space in Narratives of (Post-)Conflict in Colombia)
15.00-15.30 CoffeeBreak
15.30-17.00 Session III: Space in Colombia
David Kostenstein(ETH Zürich): In Between Walls and Fences. A City Shaped by Gated Communities
María Ordóñez(Universityof Zürich): Sujetos e (In)visibles. Paisajes, Cotidianidad y Efectos de la Desaparición en Colombia
Laura Neville(University of Lausanne): Politics of Waste and Place: Recyclers’ Formalisationin Cartagena, Colombia
17.00-17.30 CoffeeBreak
17.30-18.00 Closing Keynote
Jaime Hernandez-Garcia (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá): Post-Conflict and Informal Settlements in Colombia
Roundup Discussion moderated by Silke Oldenburg and Alexander Brust
Ca. 19.00 Closing Dinner ZumIsaak, Münsterplatz16, 4051 Basel
Venue
Museum der Kulturen
Münsterplatz 20
4051 Basel
Contact and questions: Silke Oldenburg This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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