Program
REFLECTIONS ON THE BOUNDARIES OF PERPETRATOR STUDIES: LOOKING AT VIOLENCE, POLITICS, AND HARM
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Wednesday 26th June
9.00 Welcoming Address
Julie Allard, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Université libre de Bruxelles
9.10-9.40 Opening Reflections on the Boundaries of Perpetrator Studies
Damien Scalia, Professor of Criminal Law, Université libre de Bruxelles
Ellen van Damme, Postdoctoral Researcher, Criminology, Université libre de Bruxelles
Margaux Coquet, Postdoctoral Researcher, Criminal Law, Université de Luxembourg
10.00-12.00 Panel 1: At the Frontiers of Criminalization: Highlighting the Ambivalent Relationships Between Criminal Law and Colonization
Yukti Saumya (Director of the Center for Restoration, India) – Conquering Lands, Collecting Bodies: Perpetrators’ Perspective of the Younghusband Mission.
Jeremiah Vervoort (Universite libre de Bruxelles) – Law and Litigation Relating to the Colonial Past: Spotlight on the Belgian Case.
Ahmed Ajil (Universite de Lausanne/Université libre de Bruxelles) – The Role of State Violence in the Narratives of Terrorism Offenders.
Lorenzo Bernardini (Université de Luxembourg) – Mass Immigration Detention, Thorny Pathologies and Large-Scale Impacts.
13.00 – 15.30 Panel 2: At the Frontiers of Perpetrators: Questioning the Differential Apprehension of the Individuals Concerned by Mass Criminality
Miltonette Olivia Craig (Sam Houston State University, USA) & Talisa J Carter (American University, USA) – Intersectionality and the Victim-Perpetrator Overlap: Examining How Media Covers the Criminal Prosecutions of Black Women Domestic Violence Victims in the United States.
Helen Cramer (University of Bristol, UK) – Accepting the Perpetrator Label in Order to Receive Help: Reflections on an Intervention Targeted at Male Domestic Abuse Perpetrators and the Particular Constraints of Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluations.
Rasha Hamid (University of Essex, UK) – Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: A Gendered Approach to the Language of Accountability.
Coffee Break
Michael Humphrey (University of Sydney, Australia) & Estela Valverde (University of Sydney, Australia) – The Categories of Perpetrator and Victim In Transitional Justice: the Argentine dictatorship as a ‘restless event’.
Kerstin Carlson (Roskilde University, Denmark) – Perpetrator Collaboration and Restorative Justice: Lessons Learned from Case 01 in Colombia’s Jurisdiction Especial para La Paz (JEP).
Thursday 27th June
10.00-12.30 Panel 3 – At the Frontiers of Perpetration: Rethinking the Definitions and Dynamics of Participation
Timothy Williams (University of the Bunderswehr Munich, Germany) – Perpetrators 2.0 – Rethinking Violence and Violent Actors in the Digital Era.
Etienne Rosas (Princeton University) – Breaking down Extremist Organizations through PRISM: A Complex Systems Method for Assessing Extremism.
Nusrat Jahan Nishat (District and Sessions Judge Court, Dhaka, Bangladesh) – Defining ‘Perpetrator’ Through the Light of ‘Domino Theory’: An Alternative Approach to Understanding the Epistemological Challenges in Perpetrator Studies.
Stephan Parmentier (KU Leuven, Belgium) – ‘Joint Criminal Enterprise’ as a New Perspective to Deal with International Crimes and Their Offenders.
Emilia Ziosi (University of Oxford, UK) – Criminal banalities: unveiling decision-making of cocaine traffickers operating in Colombia and ltaly.
Benjamin Gaches (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL) – Simulations for Perpetrators Studies: Which Simulations and What Can They Teach Us About Perpetration?
13.15-15.00 Panel 4 – At The Frontiers of Perpetrator Studies: Shifting the Perspective from Legal Categories to Individual Stories.
Clare Bielby (University of York, UK) – The Politics of Studying (German) Post-Terrorist Autobiography.
Paula Romo-Mayor (University of Zaragoza, Spain) – The Ethics and Aesthetics of Bystanding and Implication in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room.
Deborah Brostaux (Université libre de Bruxelles & Center Marc Bloch) – Rereading Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies: German Freikorps Militia and the Question of Fascist Desire.
15.00-15.30: Concluding Remarks
Anette Bringedal Houge, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Sociology, University of Oslo.
End of the Conference