The Historical Justice and Memory Research Network holds its first international conference from 14 to 17 February in Melbourne at Swinburne University of Technology's Hawthorn Campus.

This conference provides a unique opportunity to link the fields of memory studies and transitional justice studies and to ask questions such as: To what extent is historical justice predicated on particular memories, on particular forms of remembering or on the forgetting of a particular past? How do apologies or truth commissions, for example, shape social memories of past injustice?

The Historical Justice and Memory conference is promoting conversations across disciplinary boundaries – between historians and lawyers, anthropologists and philosophers, sociologists and cinema studies scholars, heritage scholars and psychologists, human geographers and political scientists – and across national boundaries: for example, bringing together an historian working on memories of the 1965 violence in Indonesia with a lawyer doing research on the South African truth commission, and an anthropologist doing fieldwork in Romania with somebody analysing novels written in post-Pinochet Chile.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Elazar Barkan, W. James Booth, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mick Gooda, Rama Mani and Steve J. Stern. For more information, please see http://www.historicaljusticeandmemoryconference.net/

Early bird registrations close on 31 October 2011.