Week 1

Tue, March 26

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
First session - Opening Discussion

Wed, March 27

4:00 p.m.
3 Rockefeller
Public Lecture: "Large Group Regression and Social and Political Processes"
Vamik Volkan: Professor of Psychiatry at Univ. of Virginia Medical School and Director, Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Publications include: Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism (1998); The Need to have Enemies and Allies: from Clinical Practice to International Relationships (1994), Turks and Greeks: Neighbours in Conflict (1991); Cyprus -- War and Adaptation: A Psychoanalytic History of two Ethnic Groups in Conflict (1979), and a co-authored, 2 volume work on The Psychodynamics of International Relationships (1991).

Thu, March 28

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Kathleen Allden: "Medical and humanitarian responses to psychological and psychosocial consequences of torture and mass violence: domestic and international models of intervention"

4:00 pm
Dartmouth 105
Documentary film "Crazy," a Dutch-made film about the post-traumatic stress experienced by the Dutch UN soldiers who abandoned the Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

7:00 pm
Loew Film Series: Beautiful People D: Jasmin Dizdar, UK, 1999

Week 2

Mon, April 1

4:00 p.m.
Cook Auditorium (Tuck Business School)
Public Lecture (Montgomery Fellow Lecture)
James Nachtwey speaking about his career as a photojournalist, focusing on his experiences working in Afghanistan in 1996 and 2001 as well as his response to the events of September 11 in New York City.

Tue, April 2

8:30-11:30 am
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Annabelle Winograd: "Representations of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in photography"

Wed, April 3

5:30 pm
Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum
Public Lecture
James Nachtwey and Michael Ignatieff: "Can Visual Reporting Make a Difference?
The Hood Museum and Humanities Institute present a conversation between
Montgomery Fellow James Nachtwey and Michael Ignatieff, Director/Resident Fellow
of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, about interethnic warfare in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Chechnya, and Afghanistan.

Michael Ignatieff, writer and journalist, is Director of Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights and the author of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience; Blood and Belonging, Journeys into the New Nationalism; Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond.

Link: James Nachtwey, "War Photographer"

Thu, April 4

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Ehud Benor : "Religion and nationalism in the Israeli-Arab conflict"

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: Cal D: Pat O’Connor, UK, 1984

Week 3

Mon, April 8

4:00-6:30 p. m.
Carpenter Hall 13
Showing of first half of Claude Landzman's Documentary film "Tsahal"

Tue, April 9

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Irit Rogoff:"Museums and Cultural Difference"

4:00-6:30 p.m.
Carpenter Hall 13
Showing of second half of Claude Landzman's Documentary film "Tsahal"

Wed, April 10

4:00 pm.
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
The Leslie Humanities Center presents Slavoj Zizek , "The Only Good Neighbor Is a Dead Neighbor: Love After September1."

Thu, April 11

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Joel Halpern: "Neighbors at War, Perspectives from a Half Century of Balkan Research"

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: Wedding in Galilee D: Michel Khleifi, Bel/Fr, Arabic/Hebrew w/subtitles, 1987

Week 4

Tue, April 16

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Andrew Herscher: "Constructions of Political Violence: 'Warchitecture' in Kosovo"

4:00 p.m.
2 Rockefeller
Public Lecture
Trebor Scholtz, Artist, in a multi-media presentation on art and/as resistance
in Kosovo. "Effacement/Resistance: KOSOVO"

Thu, April 18

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: No Man's Land D: Danis Tanovic, Bosnia, various lang. w/subtitles, 2001

Week 5

Tue, April 23

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Andrew Garrod with Joshua Thomas:" Forgiveness After Genocide? Perspectives from Bosnian Youth"

Wed, April 24

4:00 p.m.
3 Rockefeller
Public Lecture
Professor E. Valentine Daniel, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, discusses a film by Alan Keenan on Sri Lanka.

Thu, April 25

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Alan Keena: "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Reflections on the Precarious Position of Tamil Human Rights Workers in Sri Lanka".

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: Earth D: Deepa Mehta, Ind/Can, Hindi w/ subtitles, 1998

Fri, April 26

7:00 p.m.
Special screening in Spaulding Auditorium (Hopkins Center): Kandahar

Week 6

Tue, April 30

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Nelson Kasfir: "Trust and Suspicion among Guerrillas and Civilians: The Ugandan National Resistance Army and Rural Support"

Wed, May 1

4:00 p.m.
Spaulding Auditorium (Hopkins Center)
Campus lecture of special interest: The Rockefeller Center and the John Sloan Dickey Center present Ehud Barak, Former Israeli Prime Minister.

Thu, May 2

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Donald Pease: "Nation Building/Nation Breaking: the Media and
the Bosnian War"

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: A Time of Drunken Horses D: Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, Kurd/Farsi w/ subtitles, 2000

Week 7

Mon, May 6

4:00 p.m.
2 Rockefeller
Public Lecture
Stephen Ellis: "Religion and ethnicity in Africa's wars." Stephen Ellis is Director and senior researcher, African Studies Center, Leiden University, Netherlands (1994-present); joint editor, African Affairs, l998-present, and currently a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Modern African Studies; Journal of African History, Series editor for African Issues.

Tue, May 7

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Stephen Ellis in class
Conerly Casey: "Youthful Martyrdom and Heroic Criminality: Aggression and the Formation of Youth Groups in Northern Nigeria"

Wed, May 8

4:00 p.m.
105 Dartmouth
Public Lecture
Kay Warren: "Consuming Violence". Kay Warren is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, and is holder of an Abe Fellowship from the Japan Foundation and the Social Science Research Council (1998-2000). Serves on the Selection Committee for the MacArthur Foundation's Research and Writing
Competition on Global Security and Sustainability (1998-). John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation Fellow (1996-97), Fellow for the Institute for Advanced Study (1996-97), and Fellow, Wenner-Gren Foundation (1992-93).

Thu, May 9

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Kay Warren in class
Francine A'Ness: "Staging Tourism in a Conflict Zone: Zapaturistas Invade Chiapas"

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: Underground D: Emir Kusturica, Fr/Ger/Hun, Serb/Ger w/subtitles, 1995

Week 8

Tue, May 14

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Angelia Means: "Inciting Genocide"

Wed, May 15

4:00 p.m.
3 Rockefeller
Public Lecture
Erika Munk: "EXIT, Culture : cultural destruction/cultural resistance/cultural
reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, 1990-2002." Associate Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale University School of Drama.

Thu, May 16

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Erika Munk in class
Lynda Boose: "Bosnian Rape Camps, Turkish Impalement, and Serb Cultural Memory"

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: Guelwarr D: Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, Wolof/Fr w/subtitles, 1993

Week 9

Mon, May 20

4:00 p.m.
Carpenter Hall 13
Public Lecture
Jan Goodwin:"Caught in the midst of ethnic warfare and now the war on terrorism: Women in Afghanistan". Jan Goodwin is a journalist and author of Caught in the Crossfire, and Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World.

7:00 p.m.
Carpenter Hall 13
Public screening by Mandy Jacobson, filmmaker, of "Calling the Ghosts: A Film about Rape, War and Women," a documentary about the rape camps of the Bosnian War.

Tue, May 21

7:00 p.m
Carpenter Hall 13
Public screening by Mandy Jacobson of her new documentary film on how the 1994 genocides in Rwanda are now remembered within the surviving communities.

Wed, May 22

4:00 p.m.
3 Rockefeller
Public Lecture
Urvashi Butalia, author, journalist, publisher, activist in women's issues, will lecture on the current ethnic violence between Muslims and Hindus in India, its echoes of the violence of Partition, and how/why such violence gets written onto the bodies of women.

Thu, May 23

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Amitava Kumar: "I Married a Muslim"

7:00 p.m.
Loew Film Series: Yom Yom (Day after Day) D: Amos Gitai, Fr/ Israel, Hebrew w/ subtitles, 1998

Week 10

Tue, May 28

8:30-11:30 a.m.
1930s Room in Rockefeller
Ron Edsforth: "Old and New Reasons for Ethnic Conflict: Fear of 'Ethnic Extinction' and Dread of 'Ethnic Suicide'"

Wed, May 29

7:00 p.m.
Carpenter Hall 13
Public showing of documentary film, "Jung," about Italian doctors during the Afghani wars.

Thu, May 30

7:00 p.m.
Special Screening at Loew Theater: ABC Africa D: Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, Farsi/English w/subtitles, 2001