{"id":20512,"date":"2020-08-12T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu-events&#038;p=20512"},"modified":"2024-07-03T20:56:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T00:56:39","slug":"shannon-lecture-5-truth-and-reconciliation-commissions-canada-in-transnational-comparison-with-dr-bonny-ibhawoh-of-mcmaster","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/event\/shannon-lecture-5-truth-and-reconciliation-commissions-canada-in-transnational-comparison-with-dr-bonny-ibhawoh-of-mcmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Lecture #5: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Canada in Transnational Comparison with Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh of McMaster University"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<h3 id=\"friday-november-27-2020-at-1200-pm-to-100-pm\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, November 27, 2020 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bonny-Ibhawoh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20618\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bonny-Ibhawoh-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of Bonny Ibhawoh\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bonny-Ibhawoh-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bonny-Ibhawoh-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bonny-Ibhawoh-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bonny-Ibhawoh-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Bonny-Ibhawoh.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td><td>\n<h2>Truth Commissions and the Politics of Collective Memory<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">with <\/span><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh<br>\n<\/span>Department of History |Centre for Peace Studies<br>\nMcMaster University<\/p>\n<p>Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights<br>\n<span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">United Nations Special Procedures Expert on the Right to Development<br>\nOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights<br>\nGeneva<br>\n<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"x_fontstyle21\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the age of human rights, states are increasingly seeking truth and reconciliation to address contemporary abuses and historical injustices. From South Africa\u2019s post-apartheid TRC to Canada\u2019s Residential School TRC, we are witnessing a shift from the dominance of retributive transitional justice toward new models of restorative justice. The popularity of truth commissions also reflects the resurgence of memory politics and the increasing challenge of the nation-state\u2019s hegemony over history. This paper examines the politics and contestations over collective memory in the work of truth commissions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bonny Ibhawoh is Professor and Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Canada. He is a legal historian who has taught in universities in Africa, Europe and North America. Previously, he was a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York, and Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen. He is the author Imperial Justice (Oxford University Press) and Human Rights in Africa (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Ibhawoh is a member of the College of Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada and Chairs the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[151,57],"cu_event_audience":[164],"class_list":["post-20512","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events","cu_event_type-lectures","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2020-11-27 12:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2020-11-27 13:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/20512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/20512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20620,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/20512\/revisions\/20620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}