Day 1 - Wednesday 6 March 2024

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Greeting and ReSI Project Goals. Aurélie Audéval, Nicolas Fischer, Beth Weinstein

 

Session 1: Synergies at ReSI’s origins

• Dr. Beth Weinstein, Associate Professor, UArizona

“Rendering sensible the space of the Centre d’Identification de Vincennes”

 

• Dr. Aurélie Audeval, Junior Professor, Université de Lille - IRHIS

“Logics of Internment: One interment can hide another”

 

• Dr. Nicolas Fischer, Researcher CNRS - CESDIP

“Administrative Retention Centers and the State of Law: internment in democratic contexts”

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Session 2: Political Logics of Internment

• Dr. Alex Braithwaite, Professor, UArizona

• Dr. Rachel Van Nostrand, PostDoc, UArizona

“The concentration and contagion of cruelty: how governments emulate the use of concentration camps”

 

• Dr. Terrence G. Peterson, Assistant Professor, Florida International University

“Supervision, Resettlement, Regroupment? The Logics of Internment at France's Rivesaltes Camp”

 

Brainstorming 1: Logics of Internment (Aurélie Audéval)

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Session 3: Spaces of Internment

• Henrique Trindade, Museum of Immigration (São Paulo/Brazil)

“An immigrant Hostel in Brazil as a Space for Internment”

 

• Dr. Alexandra Natoli, Assistant Professor, University of Southern Indiana

“The ‘Heart’ of Auschwitz : Remembering the Auschwitz Birkenau Latrines”

 

• Dr. Rowena Ward, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong, AUS 

“Nouville internment camp in New Caledonia: a reused penal prison site"

 

 Brainstorming 2: Space and Trace, Materiality and Representation (Beth Weinstein)

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Session 4: Internee Agency I

• Mary M. Farrell, Trans-Sierran Archaeological Research

“The Price of Challenging Internment: Heroism or Ostracism?”

 

• Dr. Sonia C. Gomez, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University

“Across Barbed Wire and Racial Lines”

 

• Dr. Jennifer L. Jenkins, Professor, University of Arizona

“Captive Audiences: Screening Spaces in Southwestern US Civilian Sequestration Sites”

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Session 5: Internee Agency II

• David Taylor, Professor UArizona School of Art

• Susan Briante, Professor UArizona Creative Writing

• Francisco Cantú, Instructor UArizona Creative Writing

• Dr. Anita Huizar-Hernández, Associ. Professor, ASU School of Int’l Letters & Cultures

• Greer Millard, Communications Manager, FIRRP

• Dora Rodriguez, Director and Co-Founder, Salvavision

“DETAINED: Voices from the Migrant Incarceration”

 

• Dr. Taylor K Miller, moderator

 

Brainstorming 3: In and Out of the Law / State of Exception (Nicolas Fischer)

 

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Day 2 - Thursday 7 March 2024

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Field Studies: Florence and Eloy, Arizona

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Visit Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center (TJMHC)

•  Ben Lepley, Architect / exhibition design

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University of Arizona Special Collections

•  Alba Fernandez Keys, Special Collections, UArizona Libraries

•  Miriam Davidson, Guest Curator,, Special Collections, UArizona Libraries

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Session 6: Memory Institutions 

• Dr. Todd Caissie, Director, New Brunswick Interment Camp Museum, Canada 

• Ben Lepley, Architect, Tectonicus

• Ori Tsameret, Programming & Education Director, TJMHC

 

• Dr. Aurelie Audeval and Dr. Laurence Prempain, moderators

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Day 3 – Friday March 8th, 2024

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks on Remembrance

 

Session 7: KEY NOTE

• Dr. Lynne Horiuchi, Independent scholar

“Architectural History and the Internment Camps of the Japanese American Incarceration of World War II”

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• Dr. Anoma Pieris, Professor, University of Melbourne, respondent

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Session 8: Camp Traces 

• Jeff Burton, Cultural Resources Program Manager, National Park Service Manzanar National Historic Site

“Remembering Imprisoned Orphans: Community Archaeology and Restoration at Children's Village, Mazanar War Relocation Center”

 

• Dr. Koji Lau-Ozawa, Postdoc Fellow, UCLA

“Beyond the Camp: Japanese American Confinement and Topographies of Memory”

 

• Lucile Chaput, PhD Candidate, Université de Rennes 2 – TEMPORA

“The Canadian internment camps of the Second World War: "non-places" of memory?”

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Brainstorming 4: Remembrance via Space, Territoriality/geography (Adèle Sutre)

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Session 9: Memory Traces

• Nancy Ukai, Director, 50 Objects/Stories: the Japanese American Incarceration Founding member, Wakasa Memorial Committee

“Rediscovering a WWII tragedy at Topaz, Utah: Unearthing memories, grief and hidden history”

 

• Dr. John-Michael H. Warner, Associate Professor, Kent State University

“Internment and Representing Poston Japanese American Internment Camp”

 

• Kaitlin Findlay, PhD Candidate, Cornell University

“A Humanitarian Vision Lost: Tracing the Visual Aesthetics of Twentieth-Century Internationalism in the Representation and Memory of Canadian Sites of Internment”

 

Session 10: Recognition

• Dr. Laura Madokoro, Associate Professor, Carleton University Canada

“Camp Life: Space, memory and the politics of reckoning”

                            

• Dr. Rebecca Glasberg, Reinhard PostDoc Fellow, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University

“Mere misnomer or productive possibility? On Rachid Boudjedra's engagement with Lodi, ‘le camp des oubliés’”

 

 Brainstorming 5: Re-membrance (Laurence Prempain)

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General Conclusions and Future Initiatives (recruiting membership)

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