Tuesday 4 March at 17:00 in the Edgar Graham Room (MST.02.002)

Event Speakers:

Shari Eppel (speaker)
Selina Bonelli (performance artist)

Dr Shari Eppel has worked in the field of transitional justice since 1995 and since 2014 has been the Executive Director of the Ukuthula Trust in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, directing its programme on conflict resolution and community empowerment. Trained as a clinical psychologist and forensic anthropologist, Shari has worked with rural survivors of the Zimbabwean regime impacted by torture and state-orchestrated demolitions and trained the team searching for victims of disappearance in Zimbabwe. She will reflect on her work in this lecture, Bones in the Forest: Exhumation and Reburial in Matebeland, Zimbabwe.

Selina Bonelli is a researcher at Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Selina's performance practise research expands on the methodologies of wit(h)nessing. Being for and with a landscape that bears witness and taking into account all of the factors that contribute to this. It includes matter, vibrations and our relationship between ourselves, the more than human and the factors beyond our own materiality that carry the affects of what wit(h)nessing can be. Her performance, texture and materiality in landscapes of matter, uses golden thread within the architecture of place.

This event is funded by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and hosted by the Transitional Justice Cluster, Human Rights Centre, Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.