INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ETHNIC STUDIES Ethical Futures Dialogues on state, society and ethical existence 30 th, 31 st May & 1 st June 2013 International Centre for Ethnic Studies 30 th May, Thursday Panel 1 4.00 7.00 pm Post-war Rhetoric and Realities Moderator: Mario Gomez (Executive Director International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES)) Michael Roberts (Professor Emeritus, Reconciliation: Some Paths, Some Obstacles University of Adelaide) Qadri Ismail (Associate Professor, Department On (not) knowing one s place of English, University of Minnesota) Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, (Executive Director, Centre for Policy Alternatives) Sumathy Sivamohan (Department of English, University of Peradeniya) Reconciliation: Pivotal in the Transition from Post-war to Post-conflict Halal and the Politics of Place Reception
2 31 st May, Friday Panel 2 9.00 11.00 am History, Memory, Memorialisation, Remembering and Forgetting Moderator: Sanjana Hattotuwa (Senior Researcher, Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)) David Petrasek (Interim Director for the Centre Illusion and the human rights museum for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa and Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs) Nayomi Abayasekera Victimization, Historicizing and Memorialization: Jean Arasanayagam's Poetry as a Political Statement Judith Large (Visiting Fellow, University of Essex) Andi Schubert (Young Researchers Collective) Memorialization, Mourning and Narrative in Historical Memory The past in the future: the ethical future of the archive in the Dotcom age Panel 3 11.30 am - 1.30pm Militarisation, Security and Normalcy Moderator: Ahilan Kadirgamar (Political Economy Researcher) Subasri Krishnan (Independent Filmmaker) This or that particular person Documentary Ankur Dutta (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at the South Asian University) Shamala Kumar (Senior Lecturer, University of Peradeniya) Darini Rajasingham Senanayake (Cultural Anthropologist at the Social Scientists Association) Seeking normalcy in neo-liberal times: notes from two Kashmiri communities Education and militarization Political Theologies in Post-War Sri Lanka: Neoliberalism, militarism and the turn to Religion. Lunch
3 Panel 4 3.00 5.00 pm Justice and the Rule of Law Moderator: Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu (Executive Director, Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)) David Petrasek (Interim Director for the Centre for When more is less the proposal for a World International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa Court of Human Rights and Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs) Niran Anketell (Attorney-at-Law) J.C. Weliamuna (Board member of the Transparency International and constitutional/human rights lawyer) Yolanda Foster (Amnesty International) Short Selling Justice: Sri Lankan Civil Society and Individual Criminal Liability for Atrocity Impunity: Greatest Challenge for Governance "Exploring links between the global and the local - why do victims groups access international mechanisms such as the UN Special Procedures?" (A practitioner's perspective of the work of the Korean Council on "comfort women" and a Sri Lankan case study.) Panel 5 5.30-7.00 pm Nationalism, Religious Extremism and Secularisms Moderator: Shanthi Sachithanandam (CEO, Viluthu) Farah Haniffa (Senior Lecturer, Department of Fecund Mullahs and Gonibillas: The gendered Sociology at the University of Colombo) discourse of Muslim hate in post-war Sri Lanka Michael Roberts (Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide) Harshana Rambukwella (Senior Lecturer, Open University of Sri Lanka) Rumour, Incitement, Honour in the Anti-Moor Pogrom of 1915 Stone Statues and Hollow Statues: The search for Authenticity in Sinhala Nationalist Discourse Reception
4 1 st June, Saturday Panel 6 9.00-11.00 am The Political Economy of Development and Reconciliation in Post-War Sri Lanka Moderator: Pradeep Pieris( Senior Researcher,Social Scientists Association) Kumaravadivel Guruparan (Lecturer, Department The Role of the Lessons Learnt and of Law, University of Jaffna) Reconciliation Commission s report in Normalising the Abnormalcy in Post-War North and East Sri Lanka: A critique of the official ideology of reconciliation as espoused by the LLRC Kanchana Ruwanpura (Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Southampton) and Annelies Goger (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Tom Widger (ESCR DfiD Research Fellow, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex) Chris Neubert (U.S. Fulbright Scholar) Ethical Reconstruction: Primitive Accumulation in the Apparel Sector? Philanthrocapitalism, Philanthronationalism: The ethics of corporate gifts in post-conflict Sri Lanka Biopower, Social Control, and Resistance in Sri Lanka s Plantations Panel 7 11.30 am 1.00 pm Law and Ethics Moderator: Gehan Gunatilleke (Senior Researcher, Verite Research) Dhammika Herath (Researcher Peace and Sri Lankan Democracy lacks Democracy? Development research, School of Global Studies, Historical and current challenges University of Gothenburg) Sakuntala Kadirgamar (Legal Scholar) Dinesha Samararatne (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo) A proliferation of constitution-making But is there a bold imagination behind them? Sri Lankan Public Law as Political Jurisprudence through the Prism of Sovereignty of the People Lunch
5 Panel 8 2.30 5.00 pm Diversity, Inclusion and Exclusion Moderator: Harini Amarasuriya (Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Studies, Open University of Colombo) Balmurli Natrajan (Associate Professor, Is caste ethnicity and why does it matter? Department of Anthropology, William Patterson On Heterophobic and Heterophillic University) Casteism and Anti- Casteism Chulani Kodikara (Senior Researcher, ICES) Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum Bangalore) Thushara Hewage (Graduate Fellow, Columbia University) The ideological construction of women in post-war Sri Lanka Technology and the Political Ontology of Fear Revisiting a Late Colonial Thematic: Secular Critique, Ethnicity and Soulbury Panel 9 5.30 7.00 pm Reflections on contemporary social struggles in Sri Lanka Moderator: Udan Fernando (Senior Professional, Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA)) Thiruvarangan Mahendran (ching Associate, University of Massachusetts) S. H. Hasbullah (Professor in Geography, University of Peradeniya) and Urs Geiser (Senior Researcher, Department of Geography of the University of Zurich) Harini Amarasuriya (Open University of Sri Lanka) and Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri (Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo) Representative from Lawyers Collective, Sri Lanka Protesting without Orthodoxies: Towards Inclusive Movements of Resistance Differing social mobilization on land rights: A case study from Akkaraipattu of Ampara District Trade Union to Mass Movement? The Case of FUTA Impeachment of the CJ: Lawyers Movement