Scientific events : 2023 ADSS Annual Lecture. Elisabeth Anstett, “Mortality crises, funeral crises? Necropolitics in contemporary mass death contexts”

Le jeudi 9 mars 2023, à 18h (Australian Central Daylight Time) soit 8h30 en France, l’Australian Death Studies Society organise sa conférence annuelle 2023. Cet événement se déroulera en présentiel – Flinders University, Adelaide (Australie) – et en ligne : inscription ici.

Leur invitée est Elisabeth Anstett pour une communication intitulée “Mortality crises, funeral crises? Necropolitics in contemporary mass death contexts

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Mortality crises, funeral crises? Necropolitics in contemporary mass death contexts

Episodes of mass death directly or indirectly related to human activity including but not limited to wars, mass crimes, terrorism, epidemics, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis leave societies to face a sudden and massive influx of corpses, both complete and dismembered. These paroxysmal situations immediately render visible the limitations of the grammars underlying ordinary funerals and rituals. Dead bodies en masse thus prove to be highly problematic at many levels, all the more so when they are fragmented or remain unidentified. This public lecture investigates the various challenges raised by the funerary treatment of unidentified human remains and dead bodies’ fragments in the aftermath of several examples of contemporary mortality crises. In these situations, human remains and cadaver fragments indeed co-exist with the living, often for a long time, and require each society to answer essential (philosophical or moral, but also legal and practical) questions about the status they are granted (from simple pieces of waste to sanctified relics), about the chain of custody they are submitted to, and about what funeral or burial arrangements can be organised. Indeed, in some cases, mortuary and funerary practices, as well as collective representations of death and the dead, have to be reshaped, while in other instances they have to be radically (re)invented in order to be able to deal with such problematic objects in such high volume. Building on the works of philosopher Achille Mbembé (2006), political scientist Finn Steputtat (2014) and social anthropologists Katherine Verdery (1999), Francisco Ferrandiz and Tony Robben (2015), and focusing on the issue of dead body governance in contemporary mass death contexts, this public lecture sheds light on the treatment of incomplete bodies and cadaver fragments to reveal their powerful political dimension and the way they challenge the very capacity of each society to symbolically perpetuate itself.

Elisabeth Anstett is a social anthropologist, and a tenured Directrice de Recherche at the CNRS, a French state organisation that is also Europe’s largest fundamental science agency. Elisabeth is a member of Adès (Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé), an interdisciplinary research unit based at the faculty of medical and paramedical sciences of Aix-Marseille University that produces interdisciplinary works on dead bodies and human remains management and care in mass violence or crisis contexts. Elisabeth is also co-editor of the Human Remains and Violence book series and an interdisciplinary full free Open Access academic journal with Manchester University Press. She has published widely on human remains and received funding from French and European organisations. A trained anthropologist, Elisabeth has considerable experience working with scholars of other disciplines, including but not limited to history, archaeology, law, political sciences and the medical sciences.

For more information about this event, feel free to liaise with joint organisers Romain Fathi and Kate Falconer at romain.fathi@flinders.edu.au and k.falconer@uq.edu.au.

Événement scientifique : VII Rencontre internationale LUM et présentation de l’ouvrage “Los silencios de la guerra. Memorias y conflicto armado en Ayacucho-Perú” (2021) par Valérie Robin Azevedo

Les 17 et 18 novembre 2022 se tiendra la VII Rencontre internationale LUM (Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social) dédiée aux “Comisiones de la verdad y batallas por la memoria” (accéder au programme). Cet événement est accessible par Facebook Live (LUMoficial).

Dans ce cadre, le vendredi 18 novembre 2022, de 12h à 13h15 (heure de Lima, Pérou), Valérie Robin Azevedo présentera son ouvrage Los silencios de la guerra. Memorias y conflicto armado en Ayacucho-Perú (2021) dans un échange avec Nory Cóndor (Equipo Forense del Ministerio Público – Ayacucho) et Jaime Urrutia (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos). Ce panel sera modéré par Antonio Zúñiga (PUCP)

Vidéos en ligne : Conférences de printemps de la Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie

La Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie a organisé au printemps 2022 deux conférences en ligne. Vous pouvez retrouver les vidéos sur leur site internet.

  • Le 8 mars : « Enjeux de la scolarisation en milieu ordinaire des élèves en situation palliative » par Marie Sonrier [psychologue clinicienne et chercheuse], Nicolas El Haïk Wagner [co-responsable Jeunes Générations SFAP], Cécile Flahault [maîtresse de conférences HDR en psychopathologie – LPPS, Université de Paris] et CamilleReichling [psychologue clinicienne, ERRSPP PACA Ouest (Marseille)].
  • Le 29 mars : « Scandale à l’Université Paris Descartes et “mésusages” des corps donnés à la science ? » par Valérie Robin Azevedo et Clara Duterme. Vous pouvez également retrouver la vidéo ci-dessous :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzBnb4R2WQ

Panel: “Fosas comunes y exhumaciones/Mass Graves and Exhumations”. INoGS 8th Global Conference – Mexico, 27-28/06/2022

La Octava Conferencia Global de la Red Internacional de Académicos del Genocidio (INoGS) Una noche de más de 500 años: Voz, Memoria y Dignidad en América latina” tendrá lugar en la ciudad de Mexico los días 27 y 28 de Junio del 2022 en el Museo Memoria y Tolerancia (Plaza Juárez, Centro Histórico).

Miembros del programa Transfunerario participarán en un panel titulado “Fosas comunes y exhumaciones” el lunes 27 de junio, 15:45 – 17:15.

El programa completo de la Conferencia está disponible aquí: https://inogs-conference2022.mx/program

The Eighth Global Conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)A Night Longer than 500 Years: Voice, Memory and Dignity in Latin America” will take place in Mexico City on 27-28 June 2022 at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia (Plaza Juárez, Centro Histórico).

Members of the Transfunerary programme will participate in a panel entitled “Mass Graves and Exhumations” on Monday 27 June, 15:45 – 17:15.

Full conference programme in english available here: https://inogs-conference2022.mx/program

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