Program

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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