This workshop brings together specialists from different areas to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue in which the disappearance is analyzed from a historical, sociological, political, legal and aesthetic perspective. This workshop is organized by the ERC project “Digital Memories” – “We are all Ayotzinapa: the role of digital media in the formation of transnational memories of disappearance”, funded by the European Research Council in the Framework Program for Research and Innovation of the European Union Horizon 2020.
Monday, June 25 · Venue: Irish College, Conference room Ground floor
10.00 – 11.30 – Session 1
Moderator: Silvana Mandolessi
Leigh Payne (University of Oxford) The conceptual framework for understanding disappearance.
Gabriel Gatti (University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Disappearance overflowed
11.30 – 12 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 – Session 2
Moderator: Lene Guercke
Pilar Calveiro (Autonomous University of Mexico City) Continuities and transformations of enforced disappearance according to governmentality models
Karina Ansolabehere (Institute for Legal Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico) Uniqueness and diversity in disappearances in Mexico. A review of disappearances at the local level
13.30 – 15 Lunch
15.00 – 16.30 – Session 3
Moderator: Katia Olalde
Lene Guercke (KU Leuven- ERC “Digital Memories”) The complexity of the disappearances in Mexico and the responsibility of the State in international law.
Rainer Huhle (Nuremberg Human Rights Center) The diversity of enforced disappearances – Mexico is not so unique.
16.30 – 17 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 – Session 4
Moderator: Lene Guercke
Gabriella Citroni (International Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca / TRIAL International) Appropriate policies for enforced disappearance in Mexico? Not located.
Stephan Parmentier (KU Leuven) Enforced Disappearances in Mexico Revisited through the Lens of Transitional Justice.
19.30 – Dinner
Tuesday, June 26 · Venue: Irish College, Conference room Ground Floor
10.00 – 11.30 – Session 5
Moderator: Fabiola Navarro
María De Vecchi (University College London) Mexico: country without memory? Reflections on the memory of a country with missing persons
Martín Zícari (KU Leuven – ERC “Digital Memories”) Taking of the San Hipólito Temple in 1979, the history of Mexican activism as a memory of the forced disappearance
11.30 – 12 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 – Session 6
Emilio Crenzel (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research / University of Buenos Aires) The theory of “global parallelism” and state responsibility in the system of forced disappearance of people in Argentina
Eugenia Allier (Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico) Outline for the historicization of violence in Mexico, 1960-2014
13.30 – 15 Lunch
15.00 – 17.00 – Session 7
Moderator: Fabiola Navarro
Ileana Diéguez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Cuajimalpa Unit) Politicity of affects. Practices to imagine the absent
Katia Olalde (KU Leuven – ERC “Digital Memories”) Tangible expressions of the disappearance
Silvana Mandolessi (KU Leuven – ERC “Digital Memories”) Ayotzinapa: one event, multiple meanings
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break
The end:
17.30 – 18.30
