3-0280 EMBODIED ENCOUNTERS WITH LEGACIES OF VIOLENCE: MOVEMENT, MEMORY, TOURISM

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Joy Marie Sather-Wagstaff (North Dakota State University) and Taku Suzuki (Denison University)

Chairs: Taku Suzuki (Denison University)

Discussants: Christopher T Nelson (University of North Carolina)

08:00

Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the War Dead: Battlefield “Peace Tours” In Okinawa

Taku Suzuki (Denison University)

08:15

Embodying Memory Along the Slave Routes: Diasporan Travel Home to Ghana

Ann M Reed (University of North Dakota)

08:30

Guns, Cocaine, and the Embodied Experience of Violence In Rio De Janeiro’s Favela Tours

Erika M Robb Larkins (University of Oklahoma)

08:45

Walking and Dancing with Death: The Body In Belfast As Performance and Remembrance Site

Jonathan P Skinner PhD (Queen's University)

09:00

Proliferating Bodies: Negotiating Atomic Pasts and Futures At the Trinity Site

Marc Lafleur (York University)

09:15

Discussant

Christopher T Nelson (University of North Carolina)

09:30

Discussion

09:45

Break

10:00

Chernobyl 4-Ever: The Transformative Fallout of Chernobyl's Toxic Tourism

Sarah D Phillips (Indiana University)

10:15

The Earthquake of Salemi: Mafia Tourism and Disaster Heritage In Western Sicily

Joshua W Samuels (Stanford University)

10:30

Physical Nostalgia and Other Encounters with Battle Terrain: American Veterans of the Vietnam War and Vietnam Return Tours

Paulette G Curtis (University of Notre Dame)

10:45

Embodied Experience and Prosthetic Memory-Making In Memorial Museums

Joy Marie Sather-Wagstaff (North Dakota State University) and Rebekah Sobel (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

11:00

Seeing Absences: Yiddish and Hebrew Travelogues to Poland Immediately After Word War II

Jack M Kugelmass (University of Florida)

11:15

Discussant

11:30

Discussion

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