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LOCATION:International Affairs Building\, Room 1219 (Friday)\, & Second
  Floor Common Room\, Heyman Center (Saturday)
DTSTAMP:20210221T33400Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T000000
SUMMARY:Memory Laws: Criminalizing Historical Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, interest in politically and legally shapin
 g public memory regarding the Holocaust and other crimes per
 petrated during the Second World War has been evident in a w
 ide variety of arenas. One manifestation of the trend has be
 en the increasing demand for the right to truth\, which is pu
 rportedly a precondition to conflict resolution and policies
  of redress.  At the same time\, however\, there is an increa
 sed recognition of the propensity for conflicting narratives
  about the past\, particularly instrumentalized narratives ab
 out group identity and violent pasts\, to escalate hostilitie
 s among nations\, ethnicities and/or religions. These hostili
 ties\, anchored as they are in the collective memory and hist
 ory of conflict\, have become subject to extensive legislatio
 n\, with the criminalization of statements about history and 
 violent pasts becoming more commonplace. 
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