Goldsmiths - University of London

Masterclass in Visual Ethics, with award-winning director, Refik Hodzik

Thursday, 30 April, 2-4pm, RHB 256.
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Double-bill Screening of ‘Justice Unseen’ and ‘Witness 710399’, followed by a Q+A with their award-winning director, Refik Hodzik

Thursday, 30 April, 5-8pm, RHB 309.
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The Legacy of the ICTY, Talk with International Liaison Officer, Refik Hodzic

Friday, 1 May, 4-6pm, Anthropology department ground floor seminar room (G8)
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Reinventing Social Emancipation through Epistemologies of the South, Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Wednesday 6 May, 2009
RHB SH, 4-6 pm.
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Bringing Justice Home: The Human Rights Trial of Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori

For more information on the Fujimori trial, see: www.fujimoriontrial.org/

10 March 2009
Prof. Lisa J. Laplante
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‘Therapeutic’ Regimes of Governing Trauma and the Dea(r)th of the Political:
Politics of Missing Persons and ICMP’s “Bosnian Technology”

3 March 2009
Dr Jasmina Husanovic
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Justice on the Slaughter-Bench: the Problem of War Guilt in Arendt and Jaspers

November 2008

This paper develops a meta-ethical inquiry into the nature and possibility of international justice. It sees the understanding of such justice as caught between two poles. On one hand, there is a naively optimistic vision of its possibility in a world of nation-states and power politics; on the other, an overly reductive and pessimistic account of justice as only that of the victor. The ethical truth lies between these two positions, in an aporetic middle ground. The paper addresses its concerns by constructing a debate between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers out of their different positions in Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and Jaspers's "The Question of German War Guilt". What emerges rather is an uneasy relationship between the legal and the ethical, where the latter both draws on and disturbs legal categories.

Anthropology and Post-Conflict Societies a seminar series organised by the Unit for Global Justice and Department of Anthropology

Wednesdays, 4-6pm, RHB 309 from 1 October to 10 December (excl. 5 November)
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Agamben and (the Politics of) the Image

Tuesday 2 December

Professor John Lechte (Sociology, Macquarie University) in discussion with Ben Noys (University of Chichester) and James Martin and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths).
What is the role and place of the image in Agamben's work? How does the image link Agamben's so-called literary and political writings? What is the politics of the image in Agamben's theory?
Presented by the Research Unit in Politics and Ethics, Department of Politics, and the Unit for Global Justice, Department of Sociology.
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