This workshop aims at questioning the relationship between death and mobility in situations of mass violence and international migration. It tackles both the treatment of corpses and the fate of dead people in the beyond. Tracing the parallel geographies of the living and the dead, this workshop will shed light on the ways in which the journeys of the dead inflect those of the living, and vice versa.
This event is organised within the framework of the ANR-FRSCQ project entitled Morts en contexte de migration (MECMI); it is convened by Gregory Delaplace & Carolina Kobelinsky and will be held at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC).
Schedule
Thursday 15th, June
1.30 pm – 2 pm Introduction
Grégory Delaplace (Université Paris Nanterre, LESC) & Carolina Kobelinsky (CNRS, LESC)
2 pm – 4 pm 1st Session – Forensics Chair: Carolina Kobelinsky (CNRS, LESC)
Luis Ríos (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales & Arazandi Society of Sciences): Wandering dead in XXIth century Spain: Mass graves, migrants, collections.
Kate Spradley (Texas State University): Forensic anthropological application to the humanitarian and human rights crisis at the South Texas border
Discussant: Fanny Bocquentin (CNRS, Arscan)
4.30 – 5 pm Break
4.30 – 6.30 pm 2nd Session – In/Ex-humations
Chair: David Picherit (CNRS, LESC)
Elisabeth Claverie (CNRS, ISP) : The body of evidence
Dorothée Delacroix (EHEHI, Casa de Velázquez) : Lives of the dead. Travels of souls and bones in times of mass graves’ exhumations in Peru.
Discussant: Antonius Robben (Utrecht University)
Friday 16th, June
10 am – 12 pm 3rd session: Mediations
Chair : Grégory Delaplace (Université Paris Nanterre, LESC)
Françoise Lestage (CEMCA- Paris Diderot- Paris 7): When the death of some produces the mobility of others: changes in life trajectories of migrants’ widows and orphans (Mexico/US)
Paul Sorrentino (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity): Missing bodies, wandering souls, and a land to lose. Photography and other technological mediations between the living and the dead in the Vietnamese "spiritual sciences".
Discussant: Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, Ades)
Lunch
1.30 pm – 3.30 pm 4th session: Dis/Re- appeared
Chair: Lilyane Rachédi (UQAM)
Ivan Massin (LESC, Université Paris Nanterre): Variety of expectations. The double
condition of disappeared in Colombia.
Valentina Zagaria (LSE): Absent ones, loved ones, unknown dead: migration and dignity in a Tunisian coastal town.
Discussant: Jordi Moreras (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Coffee break
4 pm – 6 pm Round table & General Discussion
Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, Ades) Fanny Bocquentin (CNRS, Arscan) Antonius Robben (Utrecht University) Jordi Moreras (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
The workshop is organised in the context of the ANR-FRSCQ project entitled Morts en contexte de migration (MECMI); it is convened by Gregory Delaplace & Carolina Kobelinsky and will be held at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC).
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