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International 2-Day Workshop: Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th–21th Century)
22-23 January 2026
Workshop organized as part of the research project Mass death, Science and Medicine: Mass Death, Science and Medicine: Handling the Corpses of War in Modern Europe (1850-1960) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at the University of Geneva.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers with an interest in past and present practices of identification in the context of mass violence. Participants from various backgrounds (e.g. history, anthropology, forensics, and humanitarian action) will discuss both historical approaches to identification and current issues. In particular, the workshop will explore how identification has become a key aspect of managing dead bodies in post-conflict settings and the technical, political, and memorial questions this raises.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
Taline Garibian (Geneva),
Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis)
Talks:
Thursday 22 January 2025
Day 1: Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th–21th Century)
Date: 22 January 2026, 14:00 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis),
Pascal Adalian (Aix-Marseille, ADES),
Mareile Kaufmann (Oslo),
Linda Ratschiller (Geneva),
Victoria Abrahamyan (Geneva),
Paco Ferrandiz (Spanish National Research Council),
Chair: Erica Charters (Oxford),
Chair: Jeong-Ran Kim (Oxford),
Chair: Taline Garibian (Geneva)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers:
Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis),
Taline Garibian (Geneva)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 23 January 2025
Day 2: Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th–21th Century)
Date: 23 January 2026, 8:45 - 13:15
Speaker
s:
Laura Tradii (Kent),
Taline Garibian (Geneva),
Jeunne Teboul (Strasbourg),
Halina Suwalowska (Oxford),
Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, ADES),
Chair: Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis),
Chair: Mark Harrison (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editor:
Belinda Clark
