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Anthropology Seminar 2 February 2021
Date(s)
February 2, 2021
Location
Online
Time
16:15 - 17:15
Price
Free
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Lea David, University College Dublin, 'The Past Can’t Heal Us'.

Dr Lea David is an Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Sociology at University College Dublin.

The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2020):

In this innovative study, Lea David critically investigates the relationship between human rights and memory, suggesting that, instead of understanding human rights in a normative fashion, human rights should be treated as an ideology. Conceptualizing human rights as an ideology gives us useful theoretical and methodological tools to recognize the real impact human rights has on the ground. David traces the rise of the global phenomenon that is the human rights memorialization agenda, termed 'Moral Remembrance', and explores what happens once this agenda becomes implemented. Based on evidence from the Western Balkans and Israel/Palestine, she argues that the human rights memorialization agenda does not lead to a better appreciation of human rights but, contrary to what would be expected, it merely serves to strengthen national sentiments, divisions and animosities along ethnic lines, and leads to the new forms of societal inequalities that are closely connected to different forms of corruptions.

Tuesday 2 February 2021, 4.15pm.

The speaker will present a 45-minute paper, followed by discussion and Q&A.

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All registered attendees will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event via Microsoft Teams.

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