6-0165 TRACES OF VIOLENCE AND LEGACIES OF CONFLICT: COMBINING MATERIAL EVIDENCE AND NARRATIVE EXCHANGE FOR AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS

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Sunday, November 20, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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Organizers: Rahul C Oka (University of Notre Dame) and Nerina Weiss (Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims)

Chairs: Nerina Weiss (Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims)

Discussants: Ivana Macek (Uppsala University) and Patrick F Clarkin (University of Massachusetts at Boston)

08:00

Violent Conflict In the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Culture of Central Europe

Mark L Golitko (Field Museum of Natural History)

08:15

The Bioarchaeology of Violence: Interpersonal Conflict At Early Bronze Age Bab Edh-Dhra'

Susan G Sheridan (University of Notre Dame) and Matthew Gasperetti (University of Cambridge)

08:30

Violence and Stability In Viking Age Iceland

John M Steinberg (University of Massachusetts, Boston) and Douglas J Bolender (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

08:45

Measuring Misery: Nonlethal Violence and Injury Recidivism In the Lives of Servants and Slaves

Misty Fields (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Ryan P Harrod (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Debra L Martin (UNLV)

09:00

Trading On Troubled Times: A Diachronic Comparison of the Effects of Trader-Pastoral Conflict and Structural Exclusion in Pastoral Economies in Kenya, East Africa, 1650-1750 C.E. & 1950-2010 C.E

Rahul C Oka (University of Notre Dame)

09:15

The Structural Violence of Undocumented Border Crossing: Bridging the Gap Between Material Correlates and Embodied Experiences of Illegality, Suffering, and Conflict

Jason Patrick De Leon (University of Michigan)

09:30

Break

09:45

Revenge and Forgiveness: Bringing Biological Anthropology Into a Socio-Cultural Conversation On Transitional Justice In Argentina

Rebekah S Park (University of California at Los Angeles)

10:00

The Land of the Dislocated: Contemporary Narratives Out of the Violent Histories of the Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Communities of Northwestern Ecuador

Peter Redvers-Lee (Vanderbilt University) and Drew Cameron (American University)

10:15

Militarizing the Enemy’s Home: Traces Israeli Soldiers Leave Behind

Erella Grassiani (Vrije Universiteit)

10:30

Marks On Bodies, Traces On Souls: Testimonies of Kurdish Torture Survivors

Nerina Weiss (Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims)

10:45

Turning Trauma Into State: The Legacies of Violence In the State and Identity Formation Processes In Somaliland

Markus Virgil Hoehne (Max Planck Institut)

11:00

Constructing Legacies of Violence: Somali Refugees' Reproductive Preferences Amidst Narratives of Fear, Loss, and Assault

Elizabeth J Wirtz (Purdue University)

11:15

Discussant

Patrick F Clarkin (University of Massachusetts at Boston)

11:30

Discussant

Ivana Macek (Uppsala University)

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