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Schedule Registration Housing |
| Friday, January 7, 2000 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. |
Delaware Suite A Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Lobby Level |
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Section on Law and the Humanities |
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| Peter Kar Yu Kwan, Santa Clara University, Chair | |
| Sharon Hom, City University New York at Queens College, Program Chair |
| History, Evidence, and the Possibility of Justice |
| Moderator: | |
| Sharon Hom, City University of New York at Queens College | |
| Speakers: | |
| Penelope E. Andrews, City University of New York at Queens College
Eric Ken Yamamoto, University of Hawaii Matsui Yayori, Chairperson, Violence Against Women in War Network, Tokyo, Japan |
| Building upon last year's Section meeting, and the discussion of the ethics of reading, this year's session will explore questions of the ways that we gather evidence, reconstruct memory in claims for justice and what are the roles of tribunals, reconciliation strategies, and other types of activist and legal responses. Some specific questions that the session will address include: How do events, writings, rumors and ancestral stories shape ever-changing collective memories that inform group grievances and possibilities for reconciliation? In what concrete situations, based on what kinds of evidence, might groups repair the harms through formal reparations, other forms of acknowledgement and reconstruction? What role do cultural norms play in assessing and understanding different strategies? What are the relationship and tensions between domestic and international approaches? How do narratives function as both evidence and the frame through which justice claims are assessed and resolved? These are some of the questions the session will explore. |
| Business Meeting at Program Conclusion |