Announcement Calenda 1252842
This colloquium, which will bring together researchers and experts in a variety of fields (history, international law, political science, archaeo-anthropology), will explore the phenomena of disappearance in wartime, whether forced disappearances, voluntary erasure or unexplained losses in conflict contexts.
This symposium, directed by Jacques Frémeaux and Soraya Laribi, will examine the notion of "disappearance" from different angles: in a situation of "peril of death" (Civil Code, 1958), "forced" (UN, 1978) or voluntary. The wars (world, decolonization, civil...) of the 19th and 20th centuries contributed to the development of legislation on disappearance, and led to the adoption of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006).
The long-term consequences of these disappearances will be addressed: associative mobilizations, community rituals, individual and state searches, identification of remains via forensic medicine.
This multidisciplinary symposium (history, international law, political science, forensic medicine, archaeoanthropology) is organized into four sessions:
- Erasing traces or evaporating
- Legislating and accounting for disappearances
- Searching for, exhuming and identifying the disappeared or their remains
- Mourning and remembering the disappeared
