Ahmad Fahim Hakim (speaker) is deputy chairman to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), Afghanistan. Katherine Hite (moderator) is a professor of political science and the director of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
Darryl Petersen (speaker) is the site manager at Constitution Hill, South Africa. Sibylle Quack (speaker) is the current Max Weber Chair at New York University’s Center for European Studies, USA. Judith Said (speaker) is the general coordinator of the National Memory Archive of the Office of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Argentina.
Bernard Khoury (speaker) is principal of an independent architectural practice in Beirut, Lebanon.
María Luisa Sepulveda (speaker) is presidential advisor for human rights, Chile.
Alberto van Klaveren (speaker) is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Chile.
Marcela Ríos Tobar (conference co-organizer) is officer of the Governance Program of the United Nations Development Program in Santiago, Chile.
Sergei Kovalyov (speaker) is a trustee of the Gulag Museum at Perm–36 and the Memorial Society, Russia. Wally Kunstmann (speaker) represents the Agrupación Metropolitana de ex-Presos Políticos, Chile. Reinhard Maiworm (moderator) is co-director of the Goethe-Institute Santiago, Chile. María Raquel Mejías (speaker) executive secretary of the Human Rights Program of the Ministry of the Interior, Chile. Abdelhay Moudden (speaker) is professor of political science and international relations at Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Lika Mutal (speaker) an artist who created and developed “El Ojo que Llora,” an interactive artwork in memory of the victims of the 1980-2000 terror years in Peru. Ereshnee Naidu (rapporteur) is senior educationalist and researcher working on symbolic reparations and living memory at the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa. Vasuki Nesiah (moderator) is director of the Gender Program of the International Center for Transitional Justice. Rosario Narváez Vargas (speaker) is a documentary filmmaker and board member of the Association for Human Rights (APRODEH), Peru. Leigh Payne (moderator) is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
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Margarita Romero (speaker) is vice-president of the Board of the Villa Grimaldi Peace Park Corporation, Chile. Maggie Russell-Ciardi (rapporteur) is a consultant for the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience. Debra L. Schultz (moderator) is director of programs for the Open Society Institute’s Network Women’s Program, USA.
ˇ Liz Ševcenko (conference co-organizer) is founding director of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience. Victor Shmyrov (speaker) is director of the Gulag Museum at Perm–36, Russia. Brigitte Sion (rapporteur) is a Ph.D. candidate in performance studies at New York University, USA. Yasmin Louise Sooka (speaker) is the executive director of the Foundation for Human Rights, South Africa. Héctor Timerman (moderator) is consul general of Argentina in New York, USA. Patricia Valdez (speaker) is director of Memoria Abierta, Argentina. Alexander Wilde (speaker) is senior research fellow at the Center for Ethics of the Jesuit Alberto Hurtado University, Chile. Gabriela Zuñiga (speaker) represents the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (AFDD), Chile.
Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action