Publications
Publications
Jelke Boesten and H. Scanlon (eds), Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization (London: Routledge, 2021)
H. Scanlon, Representation and Reality: Portraits of Women’s Lives in the Western Cape 1948-76 (Cape Town: HSRC, 2008)
A. Adebajo and H. Scanlon (eds), A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essays on Africa and the United Nations (Johannesburg: Jacana Press, 2006)
H. Scanlon, “Unfinished Business: Memory and Counternarratives to the Rainbow Nation” in Peter Manning, Kate Moles, Julia Paulson, Catriona Pennell (eds), Memory and Education After Atrocities and Conflict (forthcoming Bristol University Press, 2024)
H. Scanlon, “Nelson Mandela and the Quest for a Just Peace in South Africa” in Myung-Lim Park, (ed), Kim Dae- Jung, Willy Brandt, Nelson Mandela – The World Leaders of Reconciliation, Solidarity, and Peace (Seoul, 2024)
H. Scanlon, “The Wound is still Oozing”: Gender Justice and the Illusion of Transformation in South Africa” in Exploring Persistent Questions: "Comfort Women" and Wartime Sexual Violence (RIMMS, Seoul: 2024)
J. Boesten and H. Scanlon, “The Art of Memory”, Gender and the Arts of Transition Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization (Routledge, 2021)
H Scanlon, ‘The Past is in the Present and No-One Seems Responsible for Putting it There’: Gender, Memory, and Mobilisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” in J. Boesten and H. Scanlon (eds), Gender and the Arts of Transition Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization (Routledge, 2021)
H Scanlon, “Irreconcilable Truths: Gender-based Violence and the Struggle to Build an Inclusive History” in C. Villa-Viccencio (ed.) Africa North and South: The Afro-Arab Spring and African Renaissance (UCT Press, 2015)
H. Scanlon, “A serious Miscarriage of Justice? Reflections on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s Record in Addressing Gender-Based Crimes” in "The Politicization of International Criminal Tribunals" (Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, 2014)
H. Scanlon and B. Nhalevilo, “‘Many Truths were not Revealed’: the Case of Mozambique” in F. Olonisakin and A. Okech, Women and Security Governance in Africa (London, Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press, 2011)
H Scanlon and N. Motlafi, “Indigenous Justice or Political Instrument? The Gacaca of Rwanda” in S. Pillay and C. Sriram (eds), Peace versus Justice? Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and War Crimes Tribunals in Africa(UKZN Press, 2009)
H Scanlon, “The United Nations Human Rights Council: From Rights to Responsibility?” in A. Adebajo and H. Scanlon (eds), A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essays on Africa and the United Nations (Johannesburg, Jacana Media, 2006), pp.131-146.
H. Scanlon, “Rape and Gender Violence are part of TRC’s Unfinished Business”: South Africa’s Ongoing Quest for Gender Justice” 2023 Webzine KYEOL Available at https://kyeol.kr/en/node/539
H. Scanlon, “The Rise and Fall of the Mother of the Nation: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (2018) https://www.genderjusticememory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Fallen-Mother-of-the-Nation-obituary-of-winnie-madikizela-mandela.pdf
H. Scanlon, “Women in Post-Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction in Africa” (ORE Encyclopaedia, 2018)
H. Scanlon, “Gender and the Politics of Reconciliation” (Cape Town: IJR, 2016)
H. Scanlon, “Truth and Gender: Assessing South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission” in Die Grune Reihe (2015)
H. Scanlon, “The International Criminal Court: Powerful Tool or Paper Tiger in Advancing International Gender Justice?” in Perspectives: Political Analysis and Commentary from Southern Africa (2012)
H. Scanlon and K. Muddell, “Gender and Transitional Justice in Africa: Progress and Prospects” in H. Scanlon (ed.), Special Edition on Gender and Transitional Justice in Africa, Africa Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol 9, No 2 (2010)
H. Scanlon, ‘Militarisation, Gender and Transitional Justice in Africa’ Feminist Africa, 10 (2008), pp.31-48.
October 2023: “Memory Wars and Coming to Terms with the Past: Lessons from Spain and South Africa” Science for the Global Good: A North‐South Dialogue 3rd Southern Africa – Spain Research Forum, Cape Town, South Africa
December 2022: “Unfinished Business: Enduring Legacies of South Africa's Abusive Past” 2022 No Gun Ri Global Peace Forum: No Gun Ri Peace Park, South Korea
March 2022: “Nelson Mandela and the Quest for a Just Peace in South Africa” Kim Dae-Jung Presidential Library, Seoul, South Korea 4
September 2019: “South Africa’s transition from Pariah State to Beacon of Human Rights” Kim Dae-Jung Presidential Library, Seoul, South Korea
H. Scanlon, “Nelson Mandela’s Legacy: The Creation of an Icon and a Contested History in South Africa” in Kim Dae-Jung, Willy Brandt and Nelson Mandela (Kim Dae-Jung Presidential Library: Seoul, 2018) See https://kdjpeace.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=50&page=3
November 2017: “The waning rainbow? Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa". The 7th Jeju 4.3 Peace Forum: Reconciliation, Peace and Community Rehabilitiation – Jeju and the World in Comparison” Yonsei University, Juju, South Korea
February 2024, “Unfinished Business: Memory and Counternarratives to the Rainbow Nation”, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
November 2023, Discussant of Siphokazi Magadla’s Guerillas and Combative Mothers, Conference of the African Humanities Association, Cape Town, South Africa
October 2023: Keynote speaker: “Memory Wars and Coming to Terms with the Past: Lessons from Spain and South Africa” Science for the Global Good: A North‐South Dialogue 3rd Southern Africa – Spain Research Forum, Cape Town, South Africa
October 2023: Networking Space Event, Academy of Medical Science, Birmingham, United Kingdom
September 2023, “Nelson Mandela and the Quest for a Just Peace in South Africa” in Symposium on Kim Dae-Jung, Willy Brandt, Nelson Mandela – The World Leaders of Reconciliation, Solidarity, and Peace, Seoul, South Korea.
July 2023, Association of Commonwealth Universities’ Summer School, Stellenbosch University
March 2023: “Transitional Justice in Africa” Raphael Lemkin Seminar Series, Auschwitz, Poland
March 2023, “Gender, Memory and Transformation”, Peace Women Across the Globe (PWAG), Switzerland
February 2023, “Discussant of Best Practices Guide on Enhancing the Synergy between Transitional Justice and Constitution Drafting” Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
October 2020, “Setting the Context for Conflict Prevention” FemWise Africa Capacity-Building Initiative, African Union
February 2020: Heritage for Global Challenges, PRAXIS: Arts and Humanities for Global Development Workshop, West Bek'aa, Lebanon
November 2019, “Locating Gender in Transitional Justice, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda 5
September 2019, Transnational Gender Activism: Lessons from the Comfort Women’s Movement University of Cape Town, South Africa
April 2019: “Gender-Inclusive Transitional Justice: Lessons from South Africa” Catholic University of South Sudan, Juba, South Sudan