Cambodia, from then to now: Memory and plural identities in the aftermath of genocide

	Cambodia from then to now: memory and plural identities in the aftermath of genocide May 5th, 6th and 7th, 2011	Français
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* Rithy Panh * Alex Hinton

Name: RITHY PANH

Occopation: Documentary Film Maker

Rithy Panh is a director and documentary film maker. He was born in Cambodia in 1964 and is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime. He left Cambodia for France in 1980 after spending several months in a Thai refugee camp close to the Cambodian border.
Rithy Panh rose to prominence as a film maker in 1989 with the documentary Site 2, a filmwhich presents daily life in the refugee camps through the eyes of Yim Om, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge. Over the following years, Panh made a number of critically acclaimed feature films and documentaries, several of which were nominated for and awarded prizes at prestigious international festivals such as the Cannes International Film Festival and the Oscars.
His major films include The Rice People (1994), Bophana, a Cambodian Tragedy (1996), One Evening after the War (1997), The Land of Wandering Souls (1999), Paper Cannot Wrap Ember (2007) and S-21,The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2002),a film which depicts the story of Van Nath and his torturers at the former S-21 prison where he was incarcerated.
In 2006, Rithy Panh established the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre in Cambodia. The centre aims to build an audiovisual, visual and photographic archive and make it available to the public.
Panh, through his films, is committed to what he terms « memory work » (travail de mémoire). According to the filmmaker, Cambodians engaged in « memory work » through the prism of cinema might, once again, come into contact with their roots and identity. Panh portrays dramatic situations in his films which touch on issues facing contemporary Cambodian society.

Nom: Alex Hinton

Titre: Anthropology

Professor Alex Hinton is Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs and at Rutgers University, Newark.

Professor Hinton’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of sociocultural and psychological anthropology; genocide and political violence; Southeast Asia (with a focus on Cambodia); anthropological and critical theory; transitional justice.

He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005) and six edited or co-edited collections, Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence (Rutgers, 2010), Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation (Duke, 2009), Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia (Paul Robeson Gallery, 2007), Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (California, 2002), Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2002), and Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (Cambridge, 1999). He is currently working on several other book projects, including a co-edited volume on the legacies of genocide and mass violence and a book on the Khmer Rouge tribunal.

He serves as an Academic Advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, on the International Advisory Boards of the Journal of Genocide Research and Genocide Studies and Prevention, as co-editor of the CGHR-Rutgers University Press book series, "Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights" and as the First Vice-President and Executive Board member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

In 2009, Alex Hinton received the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology "for his groundbreaking 2005 ethnography Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide, for path-breaking work in the anthropology of genocide and for developing a distinctively anthropological approach to genocide."

Source: The Rutgers State University of New Jersey Department of Sociology and Anthropology

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~socant/hinton.html