Memory and Forgiveness Workshop 2022
When: September 22nd- September 24th, 2022
Where: Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar, Sede Manga
Cartagena, CO
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Wednesday, September 21: Arrival
Thursday, September 22:
9:00 a.m. - Introduction – Felipe De Brigard (Duke University)
10:00 a.m. - Coffee Break
10:15 a.m. - Laura Taylor (University College, Dublin)
Forgiveness in the path to peace: Implications for 'post-accord' generations
11:15 a.m. – Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. - Daniela Palombo (University of British Columbia)
Bringing to Mind the Best and Worst: The Role of Emotion in Memory
12:30 p.m. - Lunch: Verona Centro Historico
2:30 p.m. - Dana Nelkin (UCSD)
Changing the Normative Landscape: Forgiveness and Letting Go
3:30 p.m. - Break
3:45 p.m. - Saima Noreen (De Monfort University)
To forgive & Forget? Investigating the relationship between intentional forgetting and forgiveness
4:45 p.m. - Reception
7:00 p.m. - Dinner: Mistura
Friday, September, 23:
9:00 a.m. - Panel Introduction – Santiago Amaya (Universidad de los Andes)*
9:10 a.m. - Pablo Abitbol (Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar)*
Deliberative Collective Memory: Theory and Practice of the Regional Historical Memory GrouP
9:55 a.m. - Yessica Blanco (Grupo Regional de Memoria Histórica)*
Reflexiones sobre la interacción entre la memoria autobiográfica y la construcción participativa de memoria histórica
(Reflections on the interaction between episodic memory and the participative construction of historical memory)
10:40 a.m. - Break
11:00 a.m. - Wilson Lopez (Universidad Javeriana)*
Researching forgiveness in the Colombian conflict
11:45 a.m. - Discussion with participants
12:30 p.m. - Lunch: Mabare
2:30 p.m. - Lucia González (Comision de la Verdad)*
¿Qué permite perdonar? (What allows us to forgive?)
3:30 p.m. - Break
3:45 p.m. - Maria Emma Wills (Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica)*
Peace building: bringing back politics and power relations into the discussion
4:45 p.m. - Reception
7:00 p.m. - Dinner: Mar y Zielo
Saturday, September 24:
9:00 a.m. - Project feedback meeting – Felipe De Brigard (chair)
Participants: Laura Taylor, Daniela Palombo, Dana Nelkin, Saima Noreen, Pablo Abitbol, Santiago Amaya, Wilson Lopez, Lucia Gonzalez, Maria Emma Wills, Gabriela Fernandez, Samuel Murray
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*denotes sessions that will be presented in Spanish
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