Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
and the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard
University, asks "What does one do in the aftermath of death or conflict?" She comments
that, throughout the conference, panelists have referred to this aspect of the war zone as
recovery, reconstruction, and resetting.
She notes that it has often been said "to the women belongs the
weeping," a reminder that, throughout history, memory and mourning have been seen as a very
gendered dimension of warfare.
Faust then introduces the panelists.
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