Tagungen
Tagung
Toward an International History of Lynching
4. bis 6. Juni 2010
Programm
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