4:30pm - Reception

5:30pm - Opening Keynote Address

Historical Methods for Memory and Repair: Lessons Learned from Reparative Efforts in Texas and the United States

Monica Muñoz Martinez (University of Texas at Austin)

9:00am - 9:30am - Opening Statements

Laura Correa Ochoa (Rice University)

9:30am - 11:00am - Panel 1: Truth Commissions as Public History 

Moderator: Laura Correa Ochoa (Rice University)

This panel brings together scholars and human rights practitioners to examine the role of truth commissions as forms of public history and historical writing. It invites panelists to reflect on the ways in which truth commissions make historical arguments, reaffirm or challenge national histories and open opportunities for imagining alternative futures. 

Presentations:

Elusive Peace: Conflict, Post-conflict, and the Forgotten Victims of the War on Drugs in Colombia

Lina Britto (Northwestern University) 

Beyond truth: the Peruvian Truth Commission as a mechanism for justice, accountability and reconciliation

Valeria Reyes (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)

The public history of cultural genocide in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Eva Jewell (Toronto Metropolitan University) 

11:15am - 12:45pm - Panel 2: Activating Archives of Political Violence  

Moderator:  Mariana Diaz Chalela (Yale University) 

This panel brings together scholars and practitioners working with archives as tools to write new histories of political violence. Panelists examine ways of reconstructing experiences of repression and resistance, challenging official narratives, and centering marginalized voices in histories that reshape our understanding of violence and its legacies.

Presentations:

Human Rights Archives and Historical Memory: On the Duty of Preservation, Custody, and Broad Dissemination of the Truth Commission’s Documentary Collection in Colombia

Indira Alexandra Ricaurte Villalobos (Archivo General de la Nación - Colombia)

Habeas Archives: Our Documents, Our Histories

Kate Doyle (National Security Archive)

​Beyond State Silence: The Role of Civil Society Archives in Transitional Justice

Verónica Torras (Memoria Abierta - Argentina) 

Co-production of reparative archives, pedagogies and counter-histories in the Darien

Catalina Muñoz (Universidad de los Andes)

12:45pm - 2:00pm - Lunch 

2:00pm - 3:30pm - Panel 3:  Memory-Making within and Beyond Cultural Institutions 

Moderator: Zannah Mae Matson (University of Colorado Boulder)

This panel examines the role that both state-sponsored and independent cultural institutions play in shaping memory in the wake of political and state-sponsored violence. It brings together practitioners and scholars from museums and arts institutions to share practices of memory work that formulate public histories for wider audiences. 

Presentations:

Activating the Archive, Repairing the Record: Liliana Angulo Cortés's Un Caso de Reparación and the Art of Truth-Telling

Ana María Reyes (Boston University) 

Recovering Memory, Rewriting Belonging: The Work of Arte Público Press

Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Arte Público + University of Houston)

Fragments and Rubble: Contested Grounds of Memory in Colombia

Ludmila Ferrari (Amherst College)

Why forgive?

Santiago Amaya (Rice University)

4:00pm - 4:45pm - Reflection + Thinking Together Session

Moderators: Laura Correa Ochoa, Mariana Diaz Chalela, Zannah Mae Matson 

5:00pm - Closing Keynote Address

Should We Listen to Perpetrators in International Criminal Law? 

Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz)