Image: from Isaias Rojas-Perez’s presentation, “Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes.”
In the 2020-2021 academic year, with the support of a Tufts Collaborates Seed Grant Program/Tufts Springboard, The Diversity Fund, and the World Peace Foundation, the Tisch College’s Director of Public Humanities, Diane O’Donoghue, and WPF’s Research Director, Bridget Conley, have organized a series of five panels over the academic year that brings together leading international voices in areas of forensic ethics to address the materiality of post-life.
Session Four, Mourning Remains, took place on March 16, 2021, and included presentations by Isaias Rojas-Perez, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers-Newark, and Julia Viebach, Departmental Lecturer in African Studies at the African Studies Centre of Oxford University.
Presentations:
- Isaias Rojas-Perez: “Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes.”
- “‘Where the Bodies Sleep’: Of Place, Ritual and Human Remains at Rwanda’s Genocide Julia Viebach: Memorials.”
