Conferences & Presentations – Dr. Willa Witherow-Culpepper

 
  • “How are Atrocity Perpetrators and their Actions Described and Deciphered in Specialist Tribunals?” Conflict Research Society, Edinburgh, 2024
  • “Performance in International Tribunals and Memorialization,” ‘Why Remember?’ Peace and Conflict Culture Network, Sarajevo, 2024

  • “Narratives of Violence as a Political Tool: As Reflected through Tribunals,” Narratives of Violence workshop,Bundeswehr, Munich, 2024

  • “Sitting on Two Chairs Uncomfortably: Frictions Between Serbian Nationalism & EU Accession,” Demographic Imaginaries workshop, Central European University, Budapest, 2024

  • Guest lecture “The Motive and the Cue: Perpetrators and Motives at International Tribunals,” University of Bundeswehr, Munich, 2024
  • “Wolves at the Door: Constructions of Motive, Responsibility, Violence & Nation at the ICTY,” Conflict Research Society, London, 2023
  • “Here Be Dragons: Charting the Language of Tribunal Prosecutions,” International Association of Genocide Scholars, Barcelona, 2023
  • CHGS Summer Institute: Researching Mass Violence & Human Rights, Ethical, Personal and Methodological Challengers Barcelona 2023

  • “The Never Again Paradox: Museum as Site of Mediation Between Past and Present Atrocity,” ‘Why Remember? Tracing the Past’ Conference, Peace and Conflict Culture Network, Sarajevo, 2023

  • “Men of Steel and Little Iron Cogs: Locating Motives of Perpetrators in the Use of Language and Construction by Prosecutors and Defense” ‘Violent Turns conference,’ American University Paris, 2023

  • Guest lecture “Hell is Empty: All Your Men & Monsters are Here”Bundeswehr University Munich, 2022

  • “The Birth of American Football in the Deaths of the Indian Wars,” International Network of Genocide Scholars, Mexico City, 2022

  • Workshop leader: “Roles & Responsibilities of Holocaust Education,” Clark University, 2022

  • “Never Again, Again and Again: Repetition of Holocaust Education as Anti-Racism Education in the 21st Century” International Association of Genocide Scholars, Virtual, 2021

  • “Never Again? Questioning the Link Between Holocaust Education and Anti-Racist Outcomes,” Co-presented with Dr. Timothy Williams Schaffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Symposium ‘Narrating Violence,’ Virtual, 2021

  • Organizer and presenter on panel “Political Ideologies and Political Identities in Post-Atrocity Transitions,” International Network of Genocide Scholars, Virtual, 2020

  • “Who is He When He’s Not at Home? Serbian Political Ideology & Political Identity in Post-Atrocity Transition,’ European Consortium for Political Research, Virtual, 2020

  • “Poland, Memory & the Holocaust,” Division of Global Affairs Conference, 2018

  • “Hell is Empty and All Your Devils are Here: The Role of Folklore in the Mobilization of Public Support in the Perpetration and Participation of Genocide” International Association of Genocide Scholars, Yerevan, 2015