Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Freitag, 4. Juni 2010
Welcome 

Session 1, Frameworks
Chair: Bernd Greiner

Manfred Berg (Heidelberg University) 
Toward an International History of Lynching

Robert Thurston (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio) 
Political Instability and the Rise of Lynching: A Comparison across the American South and Indonesia, South Africa, and Guatemala

Christopher Waldrep (San Francisco State University)
Lynching "Exceptionalism": Why Lynching is American

Session 2, The American Case in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective
Chair: Simon Wendt

Michael Pfeifer (City University of New York) 
The Bitter Seed of Albion and Eire: Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching

Brittney Cooper (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) 
To Make the Protest Loud and Long: Ida B. Wells' International Anti-Lynching Campaign, 1893-1894

Session 3, Lynching and International Relations: The Mexican-American Conflict
Chair: Lee Ann Fujii

William Carrigan (Rowan University, Glasboro, New Jersey) 
Mexican Perspectives on Mob Violence in the United States

Clive Webb (University of Sussex) 
Diplomatic Protests and the Decline of Anti-Mexican Mob Violence in the
United States

Samstag, 5. Juni 2010
Session 4, The Individual Case Study
Chair: Christopher Waldrep

Lee Ann Fujii (George Washington University, Washington, D.C.) 
Popular Participation in Spectacle Lynchings: The Case of George Armwood

Ebru Aykut (Bogaziçi University/Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University,
Turkey)
Lynching Tailor Ohannes: Ethnic Conflicts, Armenian Massacres and Mob Violence  in the Late Ottoman Empire

Session 5, Lynching and Indigenous Populations
Chair: Robert Thurston

Thomas Brown/Leah Sims (Alamo Colleges, Northeast Lakeview College, Universal City, Texas) 
Legal Imperialism and Lynching among American Indian Nations

Vickie Grieves (University of Sydney) 
Haunted by Slavery: Jim Crow in Australia?

Session 6, Lynching and Class Conflict
Chair: Rachel Monaghan

Joël Michel (French National Assembly, Paris) 
Popular Justice, Class Conflict, and Lynching Spirit in France

Hinnerk Onken (University of Cologne) 
Lynching in Peru in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries:
An Ethical History

Session 7, 16:00-18:00: Lynching and Political Terror
Chair: Clive Webb

Michael Fellman (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) 
Lynching as Political Terrorism in Reconstruction Mississippi

Rachel Monaghan (University of Ulster) 
Not Quite Lynching: Informal Justice in Northern Ireland

Christopher Saunders (University of Cape Town)
Lynching in Southern Africa: What Can be Said?

Sonntag, 6. Juni 2010
Session 8, Lynching and Communal Self-defense 
Chair: Vickie Grieves

Joseph Oduro-Frimpong (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL)
Instant Justice, Rough and Ready: On Popular Lynching in Contemporary Ghana

Apex A. Apeh (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
Justice on Recess: Trader's and Armed Robbers in Onitsha, Southeastern Nigeria, 1978-2002

Timothy Clark (Strategic Studies Section, U.S. Department of Defense)
Lynching in Another America: Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, 1980-2003

Session 9, Lynching, Vigilantism, and Legitimacy
Chair: Manfred Berg

Tilo Grätz (University of Halle-Wittenberg/University of Hamburg)
Vigilantism in Africa: Case Studies from Mali and Benin

Christy Schuetze (University of Pennsylvania)/Carolin Jacobs (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) 
Witchcraft, Poverty, and the State: Lynching outbreaks in Mozambique in Historical Perspective

Wissenschaftliche Organisation:
Manfred Berg (Universität Heidelberg), Bernd Greiner (Hamburg Institut für Sozialforschung), Simon Wendt (Universität Heidelberg)

Ort: Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg

Eine Kooperation der Universität Heidelberg und des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung