Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

Dr. Zahira ARAGUETE-TORIBIO
Collaboratrice scientifique II

Université de Genève
Faculté de droit
Département de droit pénal
Bureau 3029
Bd du Pont d'Arve 40
CH-1211 Genève 4

Tel: +41 22 37 98 561
Zahira.AragueteToribio(at)unige.ch

Scientific Activities

International conference (speaker, chair and co-organiser with Sévane Garibian), panel "Right to Truth, Truth(s) through Rights: Mass Crimes Impunity and Transitional Justice (Part I, Part II and Part III)", part of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Biennial Meeting, Genocide and its Prevention in the Digital Age: 21st Century Challenges, University of Barcelona and online, 18-23 July 2021 (SPAIN).

International conference (speaker), panel "The Continuum of Violence in Memory Studies. Body-territory Convergences", organised by Andrea García González (University of Brighton), part of the Memory Studies Association Annual Conference, Convergences, University of Warsaw and online, 5-9 July 2021 (POLAND).

International conference (speaker), panel "Life at the cemtery", organised by Noa Vana (Tel Aviv University) Yana Feldman (Ashkelon academic college), part of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK's conference, Resposability, St. Andrews University and online, 29-1 April 2021 (UNITED KINGDOM).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Sévane Garibian and speaker), panel "Investigaciones extrajudiciales en contextos (pos) transicionales. Una reflexión interdisciplinar", part of the Sixth Conference of the Latin American Association of Anthropology (ALA), Desafíos emergentes: Antropologías desde América Latina y el Caribe, University of the Republic of Uruguay and online, Montevideo, 24-27 November 2020 (URUGUAY).

Summer course (speaker) "Memoria e historia de la posguerra: entre Ciudad Real y Extremadura", co-organised by Maria Garcia Alonso and Jorge Moreno Andrés, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, National Distance Education University (UNED), Mérida and online, 22 September 2020 (SPAIN).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Aimee Joyce (St Andrews University) and Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University)), panel "Knowing Historical Traces, Eliciting Possible Futures", part of the Sixteenth EASA Biennial Conference, New Anthropological Horizons in and beyond Europe, University of Lisbon and online, 20-24 July 2020 (PORTUGAL).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Aimee Joyce (St Andrews University) and Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University)), panel "Constructing Solidarities through Historical Traces", part of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences' (IUAES) Inter-Congress World Solidarities, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 27-31 August 2019 (POLAND).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Sévane Garibian and speaker), panel "Beyond Criminal Prosecution: Understanding Extrajudicial Mechanisms of Truth-Seeking in Context (Part I and Part II)", part of the 14th International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Biennial Meeting, The Missing Picture: Rethinking Genocide Studies and Prevention, American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP), 14-18 July 2019 (CAMBODIA).

International conference (discussant), panel "Cuerpo(s) y memoria(s) de la guerra civil y la dictadura en la España contemporánea: de las fosas comunes a la Querella Argentina", part of the Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, Complutense University of Madrid, 25-28 June 2019 (SPAIN).

International conference (speaker), panel "La memoria mostrada: retóricas de la representación de la violencia en América Latina y España", part of the Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, Complutense University of Madrid, 25-28 June 2019 (SPAIN).

Conference (speaker), panel "Políticas de memoria en España", part of the conference Administrando la memoria: Verdad y Reparación a través de la Ley de Memoria Histórica de Canarias, Gobierno de Gran Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2-4 June 2019 (SPAIN).

Workshop (organization assistant), Principles for the Management of the Dead in Humanitarian Emergencies, co-organized with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Standards Organization (ISO), University of Geneva, 30 November-1 December 2018 (SWITZERLAND).

International conference (speaker), panel "Relaciones de parentesco en las fosas comunes / Kinship Relationships in Mass Graves", part of the conference Disturbing Bodies. Mass Violence, Mass Graves and Necropolitics: Perspectives from Forensic and Social Sciences, organized by Francisco Ferrándiz and the team of Políticas de la Memoria, Spanish National Research Council, Donosti, 18-20 July 2018 (SPAIN).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Sévane Garibian and speaker), panel "Accounting for Mass Crimes: Truth Seeking, Justice and the Law in Contexts of Impunity", part of the 6th Global Conference on Genocide Genocide and Mass Violence: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery? Humanities, social and medical sciences facing extreme violence, organized by the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), Aix-Marseille University, 4-7 July 2018 (FRANCE).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Sévane Garibian and chair), roundtable "The Death of the Perpetrator: An Interdisciplinary Debate", part of the 6th Global Conference on Genocide Genocide and Mass Violence: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery? Humanities, social and medical sciences facing extreme violence, organized by the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), Aix-Marseille University, 4-7 July 2018 (FRANCE).

International conference (speaker), panel "Forensic Aesthetics and the Politics of Memory", part of the conference Performing Human Rights. Contested Amnesia and Historical Justice in Latin America and the Middle East, organized by Liliana Gómez-Popescu (Romanisches Seminar, UZH), in cooperation with Bettina Dennerlein (Asien-Orient-Institut, UZH), University of Zurich, 28-30 June 2018 (SWITZERLAND).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Aimee Joyce (St Andrews University) and Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University) and speaker), panel "Revealing Histories of Violence: The Representational Politics of the Trace", part of the conference Art, Materiality and Representation, organized by the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas of the British Museum and the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, London, 1-3 June 2018 (UNITED KINGDOM).

International conference (speaker), panel "Los archivos de la violencia en Latinoamerica", part of the conference LASA18 Latin American Studies in a Globalized World, organized by the Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, 23-26 May 2018 (SPAIN).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Sévane Garibian and discussant), panel "Reflexiones interdisciplinarias en torno a La muerte del verdugo", part of the conference LASA18 Latin American Studies in a Globalized World, organized by the Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, 23-26 May 2018 (SPAIN).

International conference (speaker), panel "Le corps en preuves", part of the conference Pièces à conviction. Pour une épistémologie de la matérialité judiciaire et policière : XVe-XXIe siècles, organized by Damoclès, University of Geneva, 26-28 April 2018 (SWITZERLAND).

Research presentation (speaker), seminar Rastres i Rostres de la Violència, organized by Queralt Solé, University of Barcelona, 3 April 2018 (SPAIN).

Workshop (speaker), roundtable "All You Never Dared to Ask about Fieldwork", organized by Mira Fey, Juliette Ganne, Vanessa Gauthier Vela and Lais Meneguello Bressan, Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2 March 2018 (SWITZERLAND).

Research presentation (speaker), International Centre of Transitional Justice (ICTJ), with Sévane Garibian (University of Geneva and Neuchâtel), organized by David Tolbert and Anna Myriam Roccatello (ICTJ), 6 December 2017 (UNITED STATES).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Lee Douglas and speaker), panel "Photography in Times of Crisis: Remembrance, Imagination and the Politics of Documenting Violence", part of the American Anthropological Association 116th Annual Meeting, Anthropology Matters, Washington DC, 29 November - 3 December 2017 (UNITED STATES).

Workshop (speaker), "Recherche suisse sur le traitement du passé" with Sévane Garibian (University of Geneva and Neuchâtel) and Alexa Stiller (University of Bern), organized by Evelyne Schmid (Cercle de travail interdisciplinaire), University of Lausanne, 22 September 2017 (SWITZERLAND).

Workshop (speaker), "Subtierro: Exhumaciones de fosas comunes y derechos humanos en perspectiva histórica, transnacional y comparada", organized by Francisco Ferrándiz, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, 6-7 July 2017 (SPAIN).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Lee Douglas and speaker with Jorge Moreno Andrés), "Making Images, Unpacking Archives: Visual Methodologies, Memory, and the Production of Alternative Bodies of Knowledge in Contemporary Spain", part of the conference Why Remember? Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and its Aftermath, WARM Festival, Sarajevo, 30 June - 2 July 2017 (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Sévane Garibian and speaker with Laura Muñoz Encinar), "La búsqueda de la verdad en contextos de impunidad persistente", part of the Sixteenth Conference of Anthropology in Colombia and the Fifth Conference of the Latin American Anthropology Association, Políticas de los conocimientos y las prácticas antropológicas en América Latina y el Caribe, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 6-9 June 2017 (COLOMBIA).

International conference (panel co-organizer with Sévane Garibian and speaker with Laura Muñoz Encinar), "Truth-Seeking in Persistent Contexts of Impunity", part of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network Confronting Violent Pasts and Historical (In)Justice, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, 1-3 December 2016 (NETHERLANDS).

International conference (speaker), panel "Missing Persons, Unidentified Bodies: Addressing Absences and Negotiating Identifications", organized as part of the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, University of Milano-Biocca, 20-23 July 2016 (ITALY).

Departmental seminar series (co-organizer with Alexandra Urdea and speaker), "Collaboration and the Contemporary Research Milieu", Anthropology Department of Goldsmiths, University of London, 13 January 2016 (UNITED KINGDOM).

Seminar (invited speaker), "Departmental Seminar Series in Anthropology" organized by Andrew Beatty, Brunel University, London, 1 December 2015 (UNITED KINGDOM).

Seminar (invited speaker), "Permanent Lecture Series Faces and Traces of Violence" organized by the project Politicas de la Memoria, Memorias de la Violencia of the Institute of Languages, Literature and Anthropology, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, 26 March 2015 (SPAIN)

International conference (speaker with Jorge Moreno Andrés), panel "Ethnographic Cinema, Visibility and Political Self–Representation", organized as part of the HAUtaldea symposium Visual Anthropology: A Model for Creativity and Knowledge Transfer and of the 33rd NAFA Film Festival, Bilbao, 9-12 October 2013 (SPAIN).

International conference (coordinator and program assistant), Beyond the One–Size–Fits–All Model of Transitional Justice, part of the research project "Bosnian Bones Spanish Ghosts: Transitional Justice and the Legal Shaping of Memory after Two Modern Conflicts" (ERC Starting Grant, 2009-2013), University of Deusto, Bilbao, 28-30 August 2013 (SPAIN).

International conference (co-organizer and speaker), Thinking Memory through Space: Materiality, Representation and Imagination, panel "Sites of Trauma and Commemoration", funded by the Spanish National Research Council, the European Research Council and Goldsmiths Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-12 July 2013 (UNITED KINGDOM).

International conference (speaker with Jorge Moreno Andrés), Memoria y derecho: reparación de víctimas e investigación histórica, organized by the History and Law Departments of the University of Extremadura (UEX), Cáceres, 7-8 November 2012 (SPAIN).

Round table (speaker), Ideologías de amor y muerte en Extremadura, part of the Summer School Amor y duelo en la España contemporánea, organized by the Department of Anthropology of the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Plasencia, 2-4 July 2012 (SPAIN).


Fieldwork

Research trip to Cambodia, July 2019.

Multisited fieldwork in the regions of Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid (Spain), 3-25 January 2019.

Research trip to The Hague (the Netherlands), 19-21 November 2018.

Fieldwork at exhumation led by Laura Muñoz in the village of Valencia de Alcántara, Extremadura (Spain), 26 January-2 February 2018.

Fieldwork in the city of Bogotá (Colombia), 4-18 June 2017.

Multisited fieldwork in the region of Extremadura (Spain), 15-25 April 2016.

Fieldwork organized with Admir Jugo (Goldsmiths, University of London) in Extremadura (Spain), meeting with Laura Munoz’s archaeological team, August 2013.

Multisited fieldwork in the region of Extremadura (Spain), June 2012-September 2012.

Fieldwork organized with Sari Wastell (Goldsmiths, University of London) in Madrid, Extremadura, Galicia and the Basque Country, June 2012.

Multisited fieldwork in the region of Extremadura (Spain), December 2010-December 2011.