Global Summit on Facing the Violent Past
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GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST AGENDA | OCTOBER 20-25 History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations. –James Baldwin KEY QUESTIONS: • What roles can history education play to support peacebuilding, positive intergroup and intragroup relations, and democratization? How can it support the processes of rehumanization and the reclamation of dignity? • How do we help young citizens navigate the complex legacies of a violent past that have not been redressed? How do we prepare their teachers to do this work with confidence and compassion? • How does facing the violent past support adolescents’ civic and moral development? Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization. We work with educators and representatives of civil society organizations in over 110 countries and maintain partnerships around the world. Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. We provide content, a range of teaching strategies, and face to face and online support. We are creating generations of engaged, informed, and responsible decision makers who will uphold democracy and nurture civil society. 1 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA AGENDA Sunday, October 20 PARTICIPANT ARRIVALS Accommodation: Bonne Esperance Guest House Corner of Neethling and Van Riebeeck, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, 7600 Tel: +27 (0) 21 887 0225 Monday, October 21 7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE 8:45 GATHER AT BONNE ESPERANCE BREAKFAST ROOM AND WALK TO STIAS The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study 10 Marais Street, Stellenbosch, 7600 9:00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS TEA BREAK FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES Sequence of study Key principles regarding facing the violent past LUNCH CASE STUDY: SOUTH AFRICA: APARTHEID AND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY CASE STUDY SESSION 1: EXPLORING IDENTITY STARTING WITH TODAY – YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN IDENTITY Nabeel Allie, Sizwe Malinga, and Dominique Dryding CASE STUDY SESSION 2: MEMBERSHIP AND BELONGING TEA BREAK CASE STUDY SESSION 3: HISTORY Race in South Africa’s history CASE STUDY SESSION 4: UNDERSTANDING APARTHEID 19:00 GROUP DINNER AT DE WARENMARKT 20 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA 2 Tuesday, October 22 7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE MEET AT STIAS 9:00 CONNECTIONS CASE STUDY SESSION 5: HOW UNIQUE WAS APARTHEID? Professor Bill Nasson TEA BREAK CASE STUDY SESSION 6: OUR STORIES Themba Lonzi LUNCH CASE STUDY SESSION 7: KNOWLEDGE IN THE BLOOD Scholar-in-Residence Professor Jonathan Jansen TEA BREAK CASE STUDY SESSION 8: LEGACY, JUDGMENT AND MEMORY REFLECTION THE TRC AND THE PROMISE OF RECONCILIATION A conversation with Max du Preez Dinner will be served I’ve always thought about legacies because we work with young people and because we’ve experienced a different country. I think it makes this generation so difficult – hey? [murmurs of agreement from group] In any transitional...period in a country I think this generation has it bad. We have it bad. Especially if you are teaching.” “Not just teaching. History teaching!” “Ja! History teaching. 3 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA Wednesday, October 23 7:00 - 8:30 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE MEET AT STIAS 8:45 CONNECTIONS CASE STUDY SESSION 9: MY STORY Zolani Mahola BREAK CASE STUDY SESSION 10: TEACHING APARTHEID Sue Grové, Janine Kaptein, Leah Nasson, and Milton Phangwa LUNCH WORKSHOPPING COUNTRY CASES COUNTRY CASE: COLOMBIA Juan Camilo Aljuri Pimiento and Carolina Valencia COUNTRY CASE: NORTHERN IRELAND Sean Pettis TEA BREAK COUNTRY CASE: NORTHERN IRELAND CONTINUED Sean Pettis EUROCLIO Steven Stegers EVENING FREE TIME FOR DINNER IN STELLENBOSCH FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA 4 Thursday, October 24 7:00AM - 8:15 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE MEET AT STIAS 8:30 CONNECTIONS COUNTRY CASE: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Dea Marić TEA BREAK COUNTRY CASE: SOUTH AFRICA Dylan Wray Rand oy Hellenberg LUNCH COUNTRY CASE: LEBANON Nayla Khodr Hamadeh REFLECTION TIME ON COUNTRYCOUNTRY CASES Atif Rizvi CELL Atif Rizvi BREAK FORUM FOR DIALOGUE AND POLAND Olga Kaczmarek and Igor Czernecki REFLECTION TIME ON CELL AND FORUM FOR DIALOGUE JONATHAN JANSEN REFLECTIONS HOW TO ENDENE RACISMRACISM Chester Missing (and Conrad Koch) 19:30 GROUP DINNER AT A A LOCAL LOCAL RESTAURANTRESTAURANT History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. -”The Cure at Troy” Seamus Heaney 5 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA Friday, October 25 7:00AM - 8:15 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE HOTEL CHECK-OUT MEET AT STIAS 8:30 CONNECTIONS OUTCOMES AND ASPIRATIONS JONATHAN JANSEN REFLECTIONS NEXT STEPS LUNCH REFLECTIONS AND GOODBYES 13:00 CLOSE Transportation to Cape Town International Airport and Cape Town Central Business District will be arranged FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA 6 SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS KAREN MURPHY Summit Organizer and Lead Facilitator Karen L. Murphy, Ph.D., is the Director of International Strategy for Facing History and Ourselves. Murphy oversees Facing History’s work and the development of partnerships in countries outside the United States and Canada. She has a special interest in countries emerging from mass violence and/or in transition and divided societies with identity based conflicts. She has researched, written about, and worked on the ground in several countries, including Bosnia, Colombia, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, France, the United States, and South Africa. Murphy has also published journal articles, presented papers, and lectured on the often- neglected role of education in transitional justice processes. She is on the board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network and the editorial boards of Intercultural Education and Change: Handbook for History Learning and Human Rights Education. She is the co-author of the Children’s Report for the Kenya Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and has chapters in the recently published Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding and International Perspectives on Peace Education. She is co- director of a multi-year research project studying youth and civic development in the US, Northern Ireland, and South Africa funded by the Spencer Foundation. DYLAN WRAY Summit Co-organizer and Co-facilitator Dylan Wray is co-founder and director of Shikaya, a South Africa based non- profit that supports teachers and school leaders to ensure young people leave school thinking critically, and acting as compassionate, engaged, democratic citizens. Since 2005, in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, Shikaya has trained over 10,000 teachers and reached over 1 million young people. Dylan works globally as a facilitator, materials developer, and author. JONATHAN JANSEN Holtzmann Family 2019 Global Summit Scholar-in-Residence Jonathan Jansen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 2016/17 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and in 2018/9 will be a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is currently President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and President of the South 7 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS African Academy of Science. He started his career as a Biology teacher in the Cape after receiving his science degree from the University of the Western Cape. He obtained a MS degree from & PARTICIPANTS Cornell University and a PhD from Stanford. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Vermont, and Cleveland State University. In 2013, he was awarded the Education Africa Lifetime Achiever Award in New York, the Spendlove Award from the University of California for his contributions to tolerance, democracy, and human rights, and he also won the largest book award from the British Academy for the Social Sciences and Humanities for his book, Knowledge in the Blood (published by Stanford University Press). His recent books include Leading for Change (Routledge, 2016), As by fire: the end of the South African university (Tafelberg, 2017), Interracial intimacies on campuses (Bookstorm, 2017) and Song for Sarah (Bookstorm, 2017). His 2018 books include Inequality in South African schools (with Nic Spaull, publisher Springer), the Politics of Curriculum (Wits University Press) and Now that I know, a book on South African families who were separated by the racial laws of the 1950s. GUEST SPEAKERS MAX DU PREEZ Max du Preez is a South African journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. He was an anti-apartheid journalist who worked to expose government repression. In 1988, he founded Vrye Weekblad, the first Afrikaans-language, anti-apartheid newspaper that offered alternative policy perspectives from mainstream media and was critical of the government. During the transition, Max covered the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission on television. His weekly show, Special Assignment, brought the TRC hearings into homes across South Africa. He has written nine highly acclaimed books on South African history and politics including his memoir, Pale Native – Memories of a Renegade Reporter, and Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets, Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats. He has received several awards including the Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Journalism and has been named the Yale Globalist International Journalist.