Tuesday, 16th November 2004

09.30:
WELCOME
Prof. Guido Martinotti, Pro-Rector of the University of Milano-Bicocca
Prof. Emilio Reyneri, Director of the Department of Sociology and Social Research
Prof. Enzo Mingione, Dean of the Faculty of Sociology
Dott. Daniela Benelli, Councillor responsible for the provincial department of Culture, Cultures and Social Integration, Province of Milan.

10.00:
CRIMES OF WAR: WHAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW
Introduction to the exhibition organised by Anna Cataldi, co-director of the Crimes of War Project and peace messenger for the United Nations

10.30-12.30:

1. REPRESENTATIONS, MEMORIES AND WORDS ABOUT WAR AND VIOLENCE
Chairman: Walter Privitera, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca

Alessio Vinci, CNN Rome Bureau Chief:
What could be the role of television in preventing and denouncing crimes against humanity?

Barbara Bracco, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, University of Milano-Bicocca:
The 20th Century: war and the representation of horror

Elena dell'Agnese, Associate Professor of Political Geography, University of Milano-Bicocca:
"Urbicide" as a crime of war

Carmen Leccardi, Full Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes, University of Milano-Bicocca:
Memory and trauma

Andrea Peto, Associate Professor of History, University of Miskolc and Central European University, Budapest:
Constructions of engendered memory of military violence in Eastern Europe

Samira Negrouche, Poet and President of the Cadmos Association, Algiers:
War: at the battlements of culture.

12.30-13.15:
Violence and non-violence: readings and music

13.00-15.00
Lunch

15.00-17.00
2. GENOCIDE AT THE END OF THE TWENTETH CENTURY: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND RWANDA

Chairman: Adolfo Ceretti, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Milano-Bicocca

Amor Maovi, President of the Federal Commission for Missing People in Bosnia Herzegovina, Sarajevo:
Mass graves in Bosnia Herzegovina

Jean Mukimbiri, Director of Culture and Arts in Rwanda, and Ph.D. Researcher at the Catholic University, Louvain:
Reflections on the genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda, as a key for a hypothesis of universal application, starting with the Jewish genocide

Joshua Massarenti, Journalist on the non-profit magazine Vita: Media and the creation of ethnic hate:
the cases of Rwanda and Bosnia Herzegovina in the light of some films

Tatjana Sekuli, Lecturer of Sociology of Education, University of Milano-Bicocca:
Body, identity, memory

Bernard Gbikpi, Researcher of Social and Political Science, European University Institute, Florence:
Victimisation and processes of reconciliation

Daniela Belliti, Researcher of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Milano-Bicocca:
Identity, community and conflicts

17.00-18.00
Violence and non-violence: readings and music