{"id":12468,"date":"2018-11-26T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T11:53:46","slug":"natalie-zemon-davis-lecture-series-joan-scott-the-judgement-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=12468","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Zemon Davis lecture series \u2013 Joan Scott: The Judgement of History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Na Srednjoeuropskom sveu\u010dili\u0161tu (CEU) u Budimpe\u0161ti povjesni\u010darka Joan W. Scott odr\u017eat \u0107e od 26. do 29. studenog 2018. seriju predavanja o slo\u017eenoj problematici osude povijesti.<\/p>\n

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“As a historian, I know that there is no closure for history, that the repressed returns, sometimes as tragedy, sometimes as farce.\u00a0\u00a0 Still, I think I (naively) held to the popular belief that there was a certain finality to history\u2019s judgment. We often use the words \u201cthe judgment of history,\u201d or we suggest that we need to be \u201con the right side of history.\u201d The moral stance implied in those words draws enduring distinctions between good and evil, justice and injustice, equality and inequality, right and wrong\u2014as if in her wisdom, Clio will rescue us mortals from the errors of our ways. In these lectures, I am interested in the paradoxical operations of the judgment of history, particularly as the imposition of that judgment was seen as a means of closing the future to the wrongs of the past and in this way establishing the singular linearity of history\u2019s path. What aspects of the past were repudiated? How and in what terms? What of them remained?\u00a0\u00a0 How account for the remainders? And what do they tell us about the ways in which the moral and the political are inextricably intertwined in the idea of history itself? I take as my cases three examples of the way the realization of justice was defined in the discourse of the judgment of history.” (Joan W. Scott)<\/p>\n

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Monday, November 26, 2018 – 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Retribution: The Nuremberg Trials<\/p>\n

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Lecture I Nuremberg: The Future of the Nation-State<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This lecture looks at the Nuremberg trial in 1946. Then the defeat of Germany in war was evidence that the judgment of history had prevailed. There the imposition of justice had at least two meanings. One looked to the past: requiring retribution, the imposition of sanctions in the name of the rule of law to ensure that the criminal acts of the Nazis would never be repeated.\u00a0\u00a0 The other meaning for justice looked to the future, to the nation-state as the guarantor of human rights. The Nuremberg judges took for granted that the (\u201ccivilized\u201d) nation-state was the apotheosis of historical evolution and so left uncriticized its practices of racial and ethnic exclusion, in this way allowing aspects of the discredited past to leak into the practices of the future.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/history.ceu.edu\/events\/2018-11-26\/natalie-zemon-davis-lecture-series-joan-scott-judgement-history-retribution<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018 – 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Redemption: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa<\/p>\n

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Lecture II Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: National politics in the present <\/strong><\/p>\n

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This lecture moves to 1996, when the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission struggled to implement the judgment of history (the end of apartheid) as the future of the nation was being negotiated. There the challenge involved confronting a present fraught with danger and finding some common ground between the victims and perpetrators of \u201cgross human rights violations.\u201d These violations had to do with individual bodily harm and psychological \u201ctrauma\u201d\u2014at once recognizing and leaving aside the structures of oppression (segregation, discrimination, political disenfranchisement, economic exploitation\u2026) that defined the system. The common ground was \u201cforgiveness,\u201d justice conceived as individual redemption for victims and perpetrators alike. In South Africa, the need for political compromise crucially left in place the material underpinnings of the white supremacist state, especially its rules of property ownership. As a result the racial inequality taken to be a violation of human rights under apartheid persisted in the form of economic inequality in the non-racialist new South Africa.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/medievalstudies.ceu.edu\/events\/2018-11-27\/natalie-zemon-davis-lecture-series-joan-scott-judgement-history-redemption-truth<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thursday, November 29, 2018 – 5:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reparation: The Movement to Reimburse Victims of Slavery in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Lecture III Reparations for slavery: redeeming past promises<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This lecture takes up the movement for reparations for slavery in the U.S. An ongoing demand from before the Civil War to the present, the movement for reparations in the early twenty-first century called for recognition of an old judgment of history\u2014about the immorality of human bondage\u2014in the present.\u00a0\u00a0 In this case, it was not only monetary compensation that was at stake, but the exposure of the failure of a modern democratic nation to abide by the judgment of history.\u00a0\u00a0 Reparative justice for its proponents meant recognition of the fact that the institutionalized racism of the nation continued to be at odds with a judgment that history had long ago rendered; it was an indictment of an evil formally repudiated\u2014a past disavowed\u2014but perpetuated nonetheless by law and custom.\u00a0\u00a0 Reparation had to do with recognizing and perhaps even repairing injustice (but not forgiving it), and also with insisting on adherence to a moral standard that had yet to be realized.\u00a0\u00a0 History had made its judgment; the point now was to enforce it. The reparations movement strategically appealed to a linear conception of the progress of history even as it exposed the emptiness of its very premises.<\/p>\n

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In these lectures I maintain that \u201crace-thinking\u201d as an aspect of nationhood informed the judgments at Nuremberg (despite condemnation of the excesses of Nazism). In South Africa, the central challenge was how to realize Arendt\u2019s \u201cpolitical nationhood\u201d in the post-apartheid state. For the reparations movement in the United States, the point was to reveal the extent to which \u201crace-thinking\u201d prevailed despite its constitutional repudiation.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/medievalstudies.ceu.edu\/events\/2018-11-29\/natalie-zemon-davis-lecture-series-joan-scott-judgment-history-reparation-movement<\/a><\/p>\n

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