UMass Amherst to Host Conference on Global Violence, Conflict and Trauma April 3-4

March 27, 2008

Contact:

Ventura Perez 413/577-0662

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst is hosting a two-day conference titled, “Landscapes of Violence: Conflict and Trauma through Time,” April 3 and 4 in the Campus Center and Student Union. The events will feature experts and academics from the United States, Mexico and Northern Ireland. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend.

The conference will offer an interdisciplinary inquiry of the theoretical and empirical issues around the study of violence, warfare, conflict and human rights around the world. It will also explore the current and future potential of academe to address human rights issues, provide essential services to local, national and international governments, and broaden the dialog between the academic disciplines.

The conference also seeks to heighten the civic and community engagement practiced by many UMass Amherst faculty members by extending the concepts of scholarship and highlighting how faculty research and student learning can engage communities beyond the campus.

Among the visiting scholars attending the conference will be: George Armelagos from Emory University; James F. Brooks, president of the School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience in New Mexico; Ed Cairns, University of Ulster in Northern Ireland; David Carrasco and Herbert Kelman from Harvard University; Nancy Cheper-Hughes from the University of California Berkeley; J. Andrew Darling, Cultural Resource Management Program for the Gila River Indian Community; Peter Jimenez of the Instituto Nacional de Anthropolog?a e Historia in Mexico, and Debra Martin of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The two-day event includes a series of concurrent sessions on April 3 on the ninth floor of the Campus Center and a plenary session on April 4 in the Student Union Ballroom. The conference is supported by the UMass department of anthropology and the Psychology of Peace and Violence Concentration in the department of psychology. Sponsors include the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Graduate School, Commonwealth College, and the Office for Research.

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