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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, May 1st
6pm – 8pm: Opening Reception – Hatcher Library Gallery
Friday, May 2nd
8:00am – 9:00am: Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 11:30 am - Opening Addresses
David A. Wallace (University of Michigan)
Introduction, Chair and Facilitator
Frank H. Wu (Wayne State University)
“It’s Not Fair:” The Life and Death of Vincent Chin and the Motor City
Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)
Recovering Colors from a Whitewashed Past: Evidence of the 1915 Armenian Ethnic Cleansing in Contemporary Turkey
Discussion
11:30am – 1:00pm: Lunch (on own)
1:00 - 4:00pm: Exploring the Ethics of Memory Construction (1)
Julie Herrada (University of Michigan)
Chair and Facilitator
Gudmund Valderhaug (Hordaland Regional Archives; Oslo University College, Norway)
Memory, Justice and the Public Record
Barbara Madison (Michigan-based Native American research and genealogy consultant)
Seeking Native Documents: Institutional Challenges of Anishinaabeg Research
Noel Solani (Nelson Mandela National Museum)
Before Polokwane When Mandela Was President: Collecting Robben Island Prisoner Memories
Discussion
Saturday, May 3
8:30am – 9:30am: Registration and Coffee
9:30am – 12:30pm: Exploring the Ethics of Memory Construction (2)
Richard J. Cox (University of Pittsburgh)
Chair and Facilitator
Verne Harris (Nelson Mandela Foundation)
Ethics at the Endgame: Archives and Justice in South African Contexts
James Steward (University of Michigan)
University of Michigan Nazi-Era Provenance Research Project
Jack Tchen & Dylan Yeats (New York University)
Reviving 'Yellow Peril': Re-Membering a Disappeared Archive of the American Empire
Discussion
12:30pm - 2:00pm: Lunch (on own)
2:00pm – 4:00pm: Charting the Way Forward: Summation and Sustainability
Margaret Hedstrom (University of Michigan)
Summarizer and Facilitator