Ammiel Alcalay

is poet, translator, critic and scholar; he teaches in the department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures at Queens College and is a member of the faculties of American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, and Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest work, from the warring factions (Beyond Baroque, 2002), is a book length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Poetry, Politics & Translation: American Isolation and the Middle East, a lecture given at Cornell, was published in 2003 by Palm Press. His other books include After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), the cairo noteboooks (Singing Horse Press, 1993), and Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999 (City Lights, 1999). He has also translated widely, including Sarajevo Blues (City Lights, 1998) and Nine Alexandrias (City Lights 2003) by the Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic , and Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing (City Lights, 1996). He has also been involved as an activist on many domestic and international issues. Current projects include co-translation of a Hebrew novel, Outcast, by Shimon Ballas (City Lights, 2006); A Little History, a book of essays on politics and poetics (Beyond Baroque, 2005), and a collective translation of the Syrian poet Faraj Bayraqdar (Beyond Baroque, 2005). He has been a regular contributor to the Village Voice and his poetry, prose, reviews, critical articles and translations have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, al-Ahram, The New Republic, Grand Street, Conjunctions, Sulfur, The Nation, and various other publications in the United States and abroad.

Sultan Barakat

is the founding director of the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, founded at the University of York in 1992. Dr Barakat has extensive experience in development planning and in conducting in-country strategy making and training workshops, with a number of publications in the field of refugee shelter, humanitarian assistance policy and impact, NGO development and peace building strategies, settlement planning, rehabilitation and conservation of urban areas, post-war reconstruction and development, disaster mitigation, social and economic rebuilding of war-torn societies. He has field experience in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Colombia, Indonesia (Aceh), Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Philippines (Mindanao), Somalia (Puntland), Sri Lanka, Turkey, UAE, Uganda, and Yemen. He has acted as an advisor to governments, United Nations agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations.

Elazar Barkan

is a director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation. Barkan's research interests focus on the role of history in contemporary society and politics, with particular emphasis on the response to gross historical crimes and injustices. He is the author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices (2000) and Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity, (an edited volume with Ronald Bush, Getty, 2003); Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (an edited volume with Alexander Karn, Stanford, forthcoming). He is professor of history and cultural studies at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, California and a visiting professor (2005-2006) at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Jon Calame

is a founding Partner and Operations Officer for Minerva Partners, Inc., a non-profit architectural conservation consulting group. Previously, he served as partnerships manager for the World Monuments Fund in New York, where he managed the Wilson Challenge Program for Conserving Our Heritage and provided oversight for conservation field projects in Panamá and Mostar. His work in Mostar involved collaboration with the World Bank and the Municipality of Mostar towards a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme for neighborhoods and individual monuments in the war-torn city. He is co-author of Divided Cities: Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia to be distributed in the Spring of 2006, and has lectured widely on the topic of post-conflict reconstruction. Mr. Calame holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Yale (1991) and a master's degree in historic preservation from Columbia University's School of Architecture (1995).

Gillian Caldwell

the Executive Director of Witness, an organization that champions the use of video to document and advocate for human rights, is a filmmaker and an attorney. She was formerly Co-Director of the Global Survival Network, where she coordinated a two-year undercover investigation into the trafficking of women. Gillian received a BA from Harvard University and a JD from Georgetown University. She is a recipient of the 2000 Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Award, was named one of 40 Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs by the Schwab Foundation, a 2003 Tech Laureate by the Tech Museum, and a Special Partner by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

Vishaan Chakrabarti

is a Vice President of the Related Companies, where he will lead a variety of large-scale urban development projects such as the redevelopment of New York's Farley Post Office into Moynihan Station. From October 2002 to January 2005, Chakrabarti served as the Director of the Manhattan Office for the New York Department of City Planning. In this capacity, Chakrabarti served as a senior advisor to the Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Planning Commission on all urban planning issues throughout Manhattan. While with the City, Chakrabarti directed and successfully gained approvals for the Hudson Yards plan, a forty year vision for the redevelopment of the far West side of Manhattan into 360 acres of new commercial, residential and open space. He also directed the City's design response to the State-led process for the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11. His other major projects included the transformation of the High Line, a 1.5 mile abandoned elevated railway, into a new linear park, and a "river to river" master plan for Harlem’s 125th Street corridor including a major new presence for Columbia University. Prior to joining the Department of City Planning, Chakrabarti had been an Associate Partner for the New York Office of SOM, where since 1996 he managed numerous global architecture and urban design projects including a number of Manhattan skyscrapers. Chakrabarti has also worked as a transportation planner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Chakrabarti holds a Masters degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and dual Bachelors degrees in Art History and Engineering from Cornell University. He is also a Registered Architect in the State of New York.

Clifford Chanin

(panel chair) is founder and president of The Legacy Project (www.legacy-project.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting contemporary responses – in visual art, literature, film and public debates about memory – to historical traumas in societies around the world. He is currently a consultant to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation on the development and planning of the memorial museum. Additionally, Chanin develops projects on political and cultural issues in Muslim countries for educational, media, and philanthropic organizations. Previously, he spent a decade as associate director of Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he created programs on pluralism in the Muslim world. He has also worked as a journalist and as a spokesman for the Mayor of New York. A native New Yorker, Chanin received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, and master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University.

Craig Dykers

is a founding partner of the architecture and landscape practice Snøhetta of Oslo, Norway. For nearly twenty years he has been involved in the design of several major projects around the world including his role as co-designer for the new national opera in Norway, the new library of Alexandria in Egypt and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. He is a member of the Norwegian Architecture Association [NAL] and served as Diploma Adjudicator at the architectural college in Oslo. He has lectured internationally, including his role as a keynote speaker at the International Union of Architects 50th anniversary in Lausanne, Switzerland and recently the Bruce Goff Chair in Oklahoma. Having a strong interest in the visual arts, he began his career as an editorial illustrator and has continued to maintain the notion of exposing ideas, in the broadest sense, and illustrating his interpretations through various media. Recently his essay entitled Edgelessness was published in the AD journal "Off the Radar" from the UK. During the past year he has completed various art works including the "Histourism" installation art project in Tønsberg, Norway. He is the architect for the International Freedom Center at the former WTC site.

Horst Hoheisel

is a German artist whose work has focused on memorials and counter-memorials. He was born in Poznan, Poland, in 1944. While graduating in Forest Sciences, he also attended classes as an auditor student at the Academy of Arts, in Munich. Hoheisel promoted the ecological analysis of a tropical forest in Venezuela, at the Forest Engineering Institute for the study of the tropics, at Göttingen University, as a scientific assistant. While attending classes at the Kassel Academy of Arts, Hoheisel lived amidst a Yanomami Indian tribe at Orinoco, Amazon, Brazil, and also made several trips to the Sahara.

For the last 20 years, Horst Hoheisel's work has been concerned with the comemmoration of victims of the German National Socialist Movement. Jointly with Andreas Knitz, he has proposed and produced new shapes of monuments which have become internationally known as ‘negative-monuments’ or ‘counter-monuments’, such as the downward cascading Aschottbrunnen Fountain in Kassel and most famously his proposal for the competition for the Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe (www.zermahlenegeschichte.de) which was to blow up the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, grind it up and spread it over the site of the memorial. Besides the memory of open air landmarks, his works are included in several international museums (Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Jewish Musuem, NY; Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Jüdisches Museum, Berlin; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Gedenkstätte Deustscher Widerstand, Berlin; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, and others). He lives and works in Kassel, Germany

Vannak Huy

has been a researcher at the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) in Cambodia, a leading research institute on the Khmer Rouge genocide since 2000. He is a supervisor of the Publishing Project and Co-supervisor of Public Information Room of the DC-Cam at Rutgers University. While at DC-Cam, he has developed his academic skills to better help with this process, focusing on the global and local dynamics of truth and reconciliation.

Mr. Huy is the author of three books. In June 2003, DC-Cam published his book entitled “The Khmer Rouge Division 703: From Victory to Self-destruction.” This book describes the life histories of the young Khmer Rouge soldiers. Many were involved in the torture and cruel killings of prisoners at prison S-21, the central prison created by the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime. In 2004, he finished two more monographs. One is entitled “A Survivor from the Killing Fields: Construction of Memory through Painting Pictures,” (forthcoming at DC-Cam publication series). It depicts the stories of a former survivor from the Khmer Rouge barbarous prison S-21. The other is entitled “Memory of Victims,” (forthcoming at DC-Cam publication series). This book is a result of compiling the memories of fifteen victims of the Khmer Rouge. He is writing another book, “The Khmer Rouge’s View on their Past.”
He has edited and helped translate more than ten books for DC-Cam, has helped the staff at DC-Cam write essays, and has edited the DC-Cam magazine, Searching for the truth. Moreover, he has written many articles about meetings with victims and perpetrators. His views on the Khmer Rouge genocide issue have also been published in the local and international media.

Currently, Mr. Huy is a graduate student in Global Affairs with an emphasis on Anthropology and International Relations at the Center for Global Change and Governance of Rutgers University.

Suada Kapic

is the founder of the Bosnian multimedia producer’s group FAMA (meaning “rumor” or “legend” in BHC language). Born and raised in Sarajevo, Kapic founded FAMA in 1991 and led the organization throughout the four year war which ended in 1996, FAMA conceptualized and carried out several cultural projects designed to boost the morale of the besieged citizens of Sarajevo, and has continued with preservation and documenting facts about ‘the siege phenomena and human nature reactions on the 4 years long terror. Perhaps the best known of FAMA's efforts was the Sarajevo Survival Guide, a mock Michelin-type handbook on how to live and survive in a city under constant sniping and shelling with no water, food, heating, electricity… Since 1996-2004, FAMA is committed to digitally preserving the experiences and memories of the Sarajevans who went through that time. Kapic has served as the author, editor, publisher and producer of all FAMA projects and initiatives, in cooperation with international journalists, organizers, designers, photographers, directors, architects, scientists and writers. She continued her work after the Bosnian war, further increasing educational awareness of the projects on URBAN SURVIVAL topic /such as a FAMA Educational Package, new form of Teaching/Learning Method for local, regional and worldwide audience/, which is very much related to modern times in the world, while completing new projects as a demands of time /such as a Survival Dome and Comparison Guide/. She has traveled to Japan and to the U.S., giving lectures on cultural and urban survival under constant terror and trauma. Kapic received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Sarajevo and a B.A. in Performing Arts from the Academy of Art in Belgrade.

Avila Kilmurray

has been the Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland for ten years. The Community Foundation was appointed as an intermediary funding body under the EU Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (1995-1999) and subsequently for the Peace II Programme (2000-2004) with a budget of over ?70 million. A funder of programs in the areas of Ex-prisoners issues, Community Arts, Human Rights, Victims of Violence, Cross-Border Development among others, the Community Foundation is at the leading edge of informing policy and practice through action research and participation in a wide range of advisory committees. Kilmurray has written extensively on community development, women’s issues and civil society. She was a founder member of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, a founder member and Chairperson of Counteract (the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Anti Sectarian unit) and was a member of the Negotiating Team involved in the Good Friday agreement.

Robert Kluyver

is the Executive Director of the National Afghan Foundation for Culture and Civil Society (FCCS) and the representative of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations Network) in Afghanistan. A Dutch national, he has been working in Afghanistan since March 2000, first for the Society for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, then as civil/political affairs officer of the United Nations political mission in Afghanistan, and then as a consultant for the World Bank doing research on local governance structures. He has a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam (1995) and a M.A. in Post-Soviet Studies from “Sciences Po” in Paris (1999). He has participated in several conferences and seminars, and published a number of articles, mostly on political, social and cultural issues.

Duma Kumalo

is the Arts and Culture officer and one of the founding members of Khulumani, a group founded by survivors of apartheid-era abuses to support the process of healing in post-apartheid communities in South Africa. Duma Kumalo grew up in Sharpeville in South Africa and began studying to be a teacher in 1984, the year in which he was then jailed and unjustly accused of having killed a city counsellor. After three years in the death-cell of one of the most infamous prisons in the country, the Sharpeville Six, as they were now internationally known, were given a date of execution. With only 15 hours to go, it was changed under intensive international pressure into lifelong imprisonment. Duma Kumalo spent 4 further years in jail before being released in June 1991, but even then the case was never reviewed, and Duma never rehabilitated. Even a hunger-strike in protest at the verdict failed to make an impression. Fed up at the sneering of the judiciary over his efforts to have the case reopened, he destroyed property of the court of law and was jailed again in 1995. During the hearings of the Truth Commission in South Africa in 1996, Duma and many others spoke out. The proceedings partly relieved and partly disillusioned him. Since being freed he has sought the rehabilitation of other folk condemned during the years of apartheid. In 1997 Duma Kumalo appeared in Bobby Rodwell's production 'The Story I'm about to Tell', which went on tour nationally and internationally. His experiences were also the theme of the documentary film 'Facing Life after Facing Death' from Ingrid Gavshon as well as of the docu-performance directed by Yael Farber, “He Left Quietly”. He is a member of Amnesty International and lives in Sebokeng, South Africa.

Vasuki Nesiah (panel chair)

is a Senior Associate at the International Center for Transitional Justice and heads up its work in South Africa, Ghana, and Sri Lanka. She also leads the Center's work on gender and non-state actors in transitional justice, and co-leads the project on Innovations in Justice. Originally from Sri Lanka, Ms. Nesiah joined the ICTJ from a teaching fellowship with the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. She recently completed her doctorate in public international law at Harvard Law School, where she also received her J.D. with honors. She has published and lectured in international and comparative law, feminist theory, law and development, postcolonial studies, constitutionalism, and governance in plural societies. She holds a B.A. in philosophy and political science from Cornell University, where she graduated with distinctions in all subjects. She was also a visiting student of philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University.

Gerald McMaster

was the Director's Special Assistant for Mall Exhibitions (2002-2004) and Deputy Assistant Director for Cultural Resources (2000-2002), during his tenure at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), In these roles he was responsible for design and content of Museum's new permanent exhibitions, and managing the curatorial, repatriation, and archival departments, respectively. Dr. McMaster was Curator at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1981-2000), in charge of exhibitions, acquisitions, and publications of contemporary Indian art. He was largely responsible for creating the Museum's Indian and Inuit Art Gallery and became Curator-in-Charge of the First Peoples Hall (1995-2000). Dr McMaster's awards and recognitions include the 2005 National Aboriginal Achievement Award; the 2001 ICOM-Canada Prize for contributions to national and international museology; and the role of Canadian Commissioner to the XLVI 1995 Venice Biennale. Dr. McMaster is originally from Saskatchewan; his ancestry is Plains Cree and he is a member of the Siksika Nation.

Ana Miljanic

is the founding member and Executive Director of the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade. The CZKD is an independent cultural institution which, since 1994, has worked on reviving the liberal spirit of arts and public discourse. By organizing exhibitions, theater performances and public debates, the Center aims to help transforming social atmosphere that has been contaminated by orchestrated nationalism, hatred and destruction. Miljanic has conveyed and produced over a thousand cultural and human rights advocacy events in Belgrade and around former Yugoslavia and European capitals including her own artistic work focused on issues of remembrance, war crimes and minority rights. Since the student demonstrations in 1992, she has participated in the organization and activities of the Anti-War Movement in Belgrade and was an active member of the Belgrade Circle of Independent Intellectuals. She has created and directed some of the key influential stage productions, such as: "Stockpile of Danilo Kis", "Listen Little Man", "On Germany", "Warriors' Bordello" and her latest production, premiered on Aug 31/05 in the Belgrade porn-cinema "Partizan", a 6-hour multi-media project entitled Pornography 1,2...4, based on philosophical, literary and documentary texts on the relationships of language, censorship and freedom. Her long-standing experience in promoting human rights, international co-productions and cultural policy is complemented by academic work. She has served as a Political and Public Education Advisor to the Governer of the Central Bank of Serbia in the first transitional Government. She has used her expertise in human rights campaigning and advocacy to work with domestic and international NGOs and coalitions and most recently to co-author the Resolution on protection of the vicitims of genocide and remembrance policies introduced in the Serbian Parlament by the group of eight human rights NGOs. Among the numerious human rights advocacy and consultancy projects she is currently engaged with, the two most prominent are a series of international and regional conferencies on Transitional justice and collective memory gathering academics and practitioners, and research and writing on strategies and policies in combating organized crime. She is a recipient of awards for her work in theatre and as a curator, as well as number of fellowships and grants for her work in human rights and cultural policy. She graduated from the University of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade in 1993 and holds a masters degree in International Relations and Human Rights from Columbia University.

Dijana Milosevic

is Artistic Director and co-founder of Dah Teatar, a Belgrade-based theatre laboratory. She is an internationally known voice and movement specialist and in 2000, was a recipient of a Fulbright Award in Theatre to visit GSCU in Atlanta, Georgia as artist-in-residence. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Special Psychology at the University of Belgrade and worked with autistic children before completing her degree in theatre directing at the same university. She has trained and worked with Eugenio Barba at Odin Teatret in Denmark and served as radio director at Belgrade Radio where she also directed radio dramas. In 1991, Milosevic founded Dah Teatar, the first independent theatre laboratory in Yugoslavia. Dah Teatar regularly perform, teach and lecture in Europe and more recently, in the U.S. In 1992, she co-founded the NATASHA project, an international theatre network whose first project was the festival/conference ART Saves Lives, convened as a response to the escalating wars in Yugoslavia. She is also an active member of the Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theatre, and writes critical articles and essays about theatre.

Maysoon Pachachi

is an Iraqi/British filmmaker. She studied Philosophy at University College London and Film at the Slade School of Art and the London Film School, after which she worked for many years as an editor on TV dramas, documentaries and feature films. Among the films she has made as director and/or producer are Voices From Gaza, a documentary for Channel 4 (UK) (Red Ribbon Award, American Film and Video Festival, San Francisco), Iraqi Women - Voices From Exile, also for Channel 4, Iranian Journey, a feature-length documentary ‘road movie’ for ZDF/Arte (Golden Olive Award, Kalamata Film Festival, October 2000), Living With The Past:People And Monuments In Medieval Cairo, a one-hour documentary, for Echo Productions (USA) and Bitter Water a documentary on the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. She has also taught film producing/directing/editing in Jerusalem and Gaza for the Jerusalem Film Institute and Med Media, a programme of the European Union, and at Birzeit University in Ramallah. In 2004, she co-founded a free-of-charge film-training centre in Baghdad, the Independent Film and Television College. She is currently developing documentaries and a feature film to be shot in Iraq. Her most recent film is Return to the Land of Wonders, a feature length documentary shot in Baghdad in February and March 2004. She returned there for the first time in 35 years accompanying her 80-year-old father, Adnan, who was head of a committee drafting a temporary constitution and Bill of Rights. The film follows this process, moving between the political sphere and everyday life on the streets. It makes a space for the voice of Iraqis at this extraordinary time in their history and offers a glimpse of their endless everyday resilience.

Martha Rosler

was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she currently resides. Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance. Her work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere—often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as systems of transportation, housing, architecture and the built environment.

Her work has been seen in the Venice Biennale (2003); the Liverpool and Taiwan biennials (both 2004), several Whitney biennials; "Documenta" in Kassel, Germany; and many other international exhibitions. She has been awarded the Spectrum International Prize in photography for 2005, accompanied by a photo and video retrospective at the Sprengel Museum (Hanover) and an exhibition that has just opened at NGBK in Berlin. Other recent exhibition venues include the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2005), as well as Dublin and New York (both 2004). A retrospective of her work was shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center of Photography (2000).

Rosler has published ten books of art and writing, of which the most recent are Decoys & Disruptions: Selected Writings 1975-2001 (MIT Press, 2004) and Passionate Signals (Cantz, 2005). Several other books, in various languages, are in press. Rosler is currently on leave from Rutgers University and writes criticism. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness.

Leo Rubinfien

is a distinguished American photographer and the author of the critically-praised A Map of the East. His photographs appear in the collections of such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and have been exhibited at institutions that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum, as well as the Castelli, Light, Fraenkel and Robert Mann Galleries. He has received awards that include Guggenheim, Japan Foundation and Asian Cultural Council Fellowships, and was the first visual artist appointed a fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University.

Mr. Rubinfien is also a widely-admired writer on photography, and a frequent contributor of essays to Art in America; he teaches photography in the graduate program of the School of Visual Arts, and writing at New York University.
Mr. Rubinfien spent much of his childhood in Japan and has curated an exhibition of photographs of Japanese photographer, Shomei Tomatsu whose work has focused on the devastation of World War II. He is an alumnus of the American School in Japan, Reed College and Yale.

Biljana Srbljanovic

graduated from the University of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade in 1996, and has been an assistant professor there since 1997. Her plays Belgrade Trilogy, Family Stories, The Fall, and Supermarket, have been published or produced in over twenty languages (English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Romanian, Greek, Hebrew, Polish, Estonian, Finnish, Spanish, Flemish, Slovakian, Czech, Hungarian), and have been performed in over 80 different theaters all over the world. Her columns and articles have appeared in national and international newspapers and magazines, including Vreme (Yugoslavia), La Repubblica (Italy), Der Standard (Austria), The Guardian (London) and Der Spiegel (Germany). She is the founder of Forum of Writers, an association of independent writers in Belgrade, and has conducted annual playwriting workshops in Germany and Italy since 1998. In 2002 she received a Fulbright Scholarship and spent the following year writing and teaching in New York City. She is fluent in English, Italian and German, and resides and works in Belgrade.

Jad Tabet

received the BS Degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut in 1969. After graduation, he joined Paris University for postgraduate studies in urban planning (1970-71).

In 1971, Mr. Tabet started his own practice in Beirut in association with Mr. Rahif Fayad. Projects, mainly in Lebanon, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, were undertaken by the firm, most noteworthy a Master Plan for the Old City of Mukalla (Yemen) (1980-84). In 1986, Mr. Tabet established a design company in Paris (TABET ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS) in partnership with Sami Tabet. Selected projects include a Master Plan for Reuilly Quarter in Paris (1987-1990), Master plan & coordination for the Lanscaped Promenade Bastille- Reuilly and the Charenton-Daumesnil Quarter Paris ( 1999-2001), several projects for housing, educational, cultural and university buildings (1996-2002) and projects of social character in Paris: Sleep-in for drug addicts (1994), housing for homeless (1996), health care center for homeless (1997), rehabilitation of a low-cost housing quarter built in the 50’s including design of public spaces, and community facilities.

Since 1994, Mr. Tabet has prepared the Master Planner for the Reconstruction of the Souks of Beirut and, in association with URBI (Habib Debs & partners), the Master Plan for Jezzine region (5000 ha), the Master Plan for Falougha, Quornayel and Salima region (4000 ha) and the Rehabilitation and Revitalization of the Historic city of Tripoli.

Mr. Tabet taught at the American University of Beirut, the Lebanese University, and at the School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville. He has conducted seminars and lectured at many schools of architecture, most notably at the School of Architecture of Venice (Italy), the School of Architecture of Lyon (France), the Architecture department at the Polytechnic School of Lausanne (Switzerland), the School of Planning at MIT (Boston, USA), the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), and the Museum of Ethnography of Osaka (Japan).

Mr. Tabet is an Expert Member of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee; a Director of the International Union of Architects (UIA) Programme: Reconstructing war-torn cities; and a Member of the Administrative Board of the NGO: Patrimoine Sans Frontières.

Mr. Tabet received many awards including the Laureate of the "Palmares de la Réhabilitation" delivered by the French Ministry of Culture, July 2001 (with Sami Tabet); Golden Prism 2000 / Grand Prix National pour la Réhabilitation de l’Habitat delivered jointly by the French Ministries of Culture, Housing & Equipment (with Sami Tabet); and Prix de l’Aménagement Urbain / Le Moniteur 1993 (in collaboration with Roland Schweitzer).

Lyonel Trouillot

is a poet, novelist, and essayist who writes in Haitian Kreyòl and French, Lyonel Trouillot is a founding member of the Haitian Writers Association. Street of Lost Footsteps, translated by Linda Coverdale, was named as a finalist for the 2004 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

Lyonel Trouillot’s harrowing novel depicts a night of blazing violence in modern-day Port-au-Prince and recalls hundreds of years of violence stretching back even before the birth of Haiti in the fires of revolution. Three narrators—a madam, a taxi driver, and a post office employee—describe in almost hallucinatory terms the escalating chaos of a bloody uprising that pits the partisans of the Prophet against the murderous might of the great dictator Deceased Forever-Immortal. The drama of promise and betrayal in Haitian life inform’s Street of Lost Footsteps with the grim irony and savage tenderness characteristic of writers for whom the repetitiveness of history has gone beyond tragedy, through farce, and on into insanity. With impressive originality and touching immediacy, Trouillot explores the nature of political oppression, memory, and truth.

Patricia Tappatá de Valdez

Patricia Valdez has worked in the defence of Human Rights since 1974 in Peru, El Salvador and Argentina. She is currently Director of Memoria Abierta, an alliance of six Argentinean human rights organisations working together to preserve, organize and exhibit the documented history of state terrorism in Argentina, and to encourage public policy that will help recover the memory of state terrorism as part of the nation’s cultural, social and political identity.
She was the Director of the “Truth Commission for El Salvador,” created as part of the peace agreements signed in that country between the government and the “Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional” (FMLN). She also directed the Human Rights Department of the National Conference of Bishops in Peru (CEAS) 1977-1989, and the “Political Representation” Programme at the Fundación Poder Ciudadano in Argentina, 1993-1997.
In 1985, she co-founded the “Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos” in Peru and was a member of its first executive committee.

She was a member of the board of trustees of the “Institute for the Democracy in South Africa” (IDASA) between 1996 and 1999. She also coordinated for three years a regional program on social responsibility and leadership developed by the Kellogg Foundation in seven countries.

Since 1995, she has been a board member of the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales –CELS (Argentina). She is also member of the Comisión Pro-Monumento (Commission that backs the building of a memorial monument in honour of the victims of state terrorism) at the Legislature of Buenos Aires city. Patricia Valdez is one of the founder members of the International Coalition of Historic Sites and Museums of Conscience.

She is the author of several articles and book contributions that deal with her work in the field of human rights. In addition to that, she has served as guest lecturer at universities such as Buenos Aires, Torcuato Di Tella, San Andres (Argentina), Tecnológico de Monterrey (México), Georgetown (USA) and UNED (Spain).

Patricia Valdez has a Bachelors in Social Work from the Universidad Nacional de Córdobaand post graduate studies in Social Sciences from FLACSO –Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales- Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Clive van den Berg

is an artist, curator, designer, writer and teacher, who lives and works in Johannesburg.
As a designer, van den Berg has worked both alone and with some of the nation’s top architects to create public spaces—from museums to state buildings—in which new communities can form. Among his major recent projects are the Northern Cape Legislature, the museums of Constitution Hill, two major Mandela Foundation exhibitions, and the outdoor sculpture for the District Six Project in Cape Town.

Combining museum design, curatorial practice and environmental art, Van den Berg has worked to produce a distinctly South African aesthetic for public space which is both sensitive to local traditions and creative of new possibilities. The same philosophy guides his curatorial work, including, most recently, the Brett Kebble Art Awards shows, and the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival. For both of these shows, as for the Constitution Hill project, he has designed major books.

Since winning the Volkskas Atelier Young Artists award in 1987, Clive van den Berg has been acquiring a growing reputation as a visual artist who combines formal beauty with conceptual depth. His works range in size and format, and include paintings, prints, multi-media sculpture, landscape installation, and videography. Variously addressed to questions of the body, eros, memory, land and light, his art has been shown around the world—in South Africa, Berlin, Charleroi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, and Stockholm. It has also earned him several major prizes, including, internationally, a Civitella Ranieri fellowship and the Michelin International Art Competition. His work has been collected by the South African National Gallery and the Johannesburg Art Gallery, among public institutions, and is included in several corporate and private collections in South Africa and abroad. He is represented in South Africa by the Goodman Gallery.

Camilo Jose Vergara

Since 1977, Camilo José Vergara has documented the transformation of urban landscapes across the United States. Trained as a sociologist, he reaches into the disciplines of architecture, photography, urban planning, history, and anthropology for tools to present the gradual erosion of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural grandeur in urban neighborhoods, their subsequent neglect and abandonment, and scattered efforts at rehabilitation. Repeatedly photographing, sometimes over the course of decades, the same structures and neighborhoods, Vergara records both large-scale and subtle changes in the visual landscape of cities and inner cities in the United States. Over the years, Vergara has amassed a rich archive of several thousand photographs that are a rare and important cache of American history. These images, monuments to survival and reformation of American cities, are a unique visual study; they also inform the process of city planning by highlighting the constant remodeling of urban space. His photographs have been exhibited widely and acquired by institutions such as the Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In collaboration with historian Howard Gillette, under the sponsorship of Rutgers University in Camden and with support from the Ford Foundation, Vergara is creating a documentary record for Camden, New Jersey, and Richmond, California. The work in progress, in the form of an interactive Website, can be seen at www.camden.rutgers.edu/~hfcy/intro.html. His books include Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery (1989, with Kenneth Jackson), The New American Ghetto (1995), American Ruins (1999), Unexpected Chicagoland with Timothy Samuelson (2001), Twin Towers Remembered (2001), Subway Memories (2004), and How the Other Half Worships (Fall 2005). Vergara has received numerous awards and fellowships, among them a MacArthur grant in 2002.

Eyal Weizman

Based in Tel Aviv and London, architect Eyal Weizman explores the political struggle on the West Bank through architecture, urban planning, research, and map-making. In 2003, Weizman and fellow Israeli architect Rafi Segal organized the exhibition A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture, shown at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Weizman has also designed maps of the West Bank for the human rights group B’tselem and co-authored the human rights report Land Grab in 2002. He is currently developing his doctoral thesis, The Politics of Verticality / Architecture and Occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, into a book and documentary film. Weizman is Professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and Director of Goldsmith’s Centre for Architecture Research, London.

Lebbeus Woods (Panel chair)

is widely regarded as one of the most important and creative voices in contemporary architecture. His extensive work in architectural theory, his imaginative drawings, and his commitment to the idea of architecture as a vehicle for political and social critique have exercised an enormous influence on the worlds of architecture, design, and visual art.
Lebbeus Woods studied architecture at the University of Illinois and engineering at Purdue University. From 1964 to 1968, Woods worked as an architect in the office of Eero Saarinen before leaving to enter private practice. Since 1976, Woods has focused exclusively on issues in architectural theory and on the development of experimental architectural projects. His commitment to the theoretical possibilities of architecture has allowed Woods to position his work at the intersection of visual art, philosophy, design, urban planning, and political science. Throughout his career, Woods has consistently explored architecture as a means of registering and responding to crisis--whether natural, political, or ideological. Buildings damaged by earthquakes, ravaged by economic collapse, and devastated by war all become the sites of a radically re-imagined architecture. Such crises and conflicts are seen as forces, not only of destruction, but also of potential liberation, allowing new modes of existence to come into being and creating new possibilities for spatial and social organization.

For example, in a series of works entitled War and Architecture (1992-1995), Woods has explored the idea of Sarajevo as a zone in which the conflicts that ravaged its people and its architecture also forced new questions to be asked and new solutions to be uncovered. For Woods, points of conflict and tension are always also points of contact and intersection. The architectural devastation suffered by Sarajevo functions in tandem with opportunities for its architectural renewal and reinvention, and makes that city an ideal place to think through issues that will continue to confront architecture in the twenty-first century, as it is forced to respond to and engage with a world of increasing cultural, ethnic, economic, and political instability.
More recently, in The Storm , his installation at the Houghton Gallery at New York's Cooper Union, Woods illustrated a similar interplay between the destructive and the creative. His installation transformed the gallery space into an array of dynamic vectors and potential energy, manifested as a dense web of wires strung across the gallery, and animated and transformed the static Euclidian geometry of the room. Similarly, for The Fall (2002), an installation created for the Fondation Cartier, Woods articulated and exposed the energy that would be unleashed if the built space of the gallery were to collapse. He freezes a single, imaginary moment in time, and transforms the accidental and the catastrophic into an opportunity for contemplation of the possible.

Among the most notable of Lebbeus Woods' many other projects and proposals are Solohouse (1988), Berlin Free-Zone (1991), and the Havana Projects (1995-1996). Woods is the cofounder and scientific director of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture, Europe (RIEAeuropa), an institute devoted to the advancement of radical architectural theory and practice. Woods has taught architecture at The Cooper Union in New York City and at The Bartlett in London, as well as at Harvard and Columbia Universities. His list of publications is extensive, and includes Anarchitecture: Architecture is a Political Act (1992) and Radical Reconstruction (1997). His awards and honors include the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the American Institute of Architects Award for Design, and the Progressive Architecture Award for Design Research. His drawings, designs, and installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and his work is in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Getty Research Institute of the Arts and Humanitites, among others.

James E. Young (Panel chair)

is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he has taught since 1988, and currently Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He has also taught at New York University as a Dorot Professor of English and Hebrew/Judaic Studies (1984-88), at Bryn Mawr College in the History of Religion, and at the University of Washington, Harvard University, and Princeton University as a visiting professor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1983.

Professor Young is the author of Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (1988), The Texture of Memory (Yale University Press, 1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994, and At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press, 2000). He was also the Guest Curator of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City, entitled "The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History" (March - August 1994, with venues in Berlin and Munich, September 1994 - June 1995) and was the editor of The Art of Memory (Prestel Verlag, 1994), the exhibition catalogue for this show.

In 1997, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany's national "Memorial to Europe's Murdered Jews," under construction in Berlin. He has also consulted with Argentina’s government on its memorial to the desaparacidos, as well as with numerous city agencies on their memorials and museums. Most recently, he has been appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition, completed in January 2004.
His articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, New Literary History, Partisan Review, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Annales, SAQ, History and Theory, Harvard Design Magazine, Jewish Social Studies, Contemporary Literature, History and Memory, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Prooftexts, The Jewish Quarterly, Tikkun, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Slate, among dozens of other journals and collected volumes. His books and articles have been published in German, French, Hebrew, Japanese, and Swedish editions.

Professor Young is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship, NEH Exhibition planning, implementation, and research grants, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grants, an American Philosophical Society Grant, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, among others.
In 2000, he was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a ten-volume anthology of primary sources, documents, texts, and images, forthcoming with Yale University Press. At present, he is completing an insider’s story of the World Trade Center Memorial, entitled Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror’s Report on the World Trade Center Site Memorial.