The Conflict, Memory and Transitions program brings together speakers from Latin America, Europe, and the United States on the subjects of violence, memory, fear, truth commissions, and postwar reconciliation.

Elizabeth Lira is a Chilean psychologist and professor at the Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado. Her current research focuses on Chilean reconciliation and resistance of memory. She is a supervisor for PRAIS, a public and mental health program for victims of domestic violence and human rights violations during the 1973-1990 dictatorship. Professor Lira has co-authored two books with San Diego State University Professor Brian Loveman on political reconciliation, and written a number of other books related to the collective memory of victims of human rights abuses.

Monday, March 4, 4:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street

Analysis and Commentary for this event

Amy Ross
Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Georgia
"From Pinochet to Milosevic: International Law and the Prosecution of the Powerful"

NOTICE: Due to unforeseeable circumstances, Professor Ross' talk was cancelled. We hope to reschedule her presentation for some time in the near future.

Prof. Ross received a Ph. D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She did a comparative study of truth commissions for her dissertation entitled, The Body of the Truth: Truth Commissions in Guatemala and South Africa. Professor Ross has conducted research at the International Criminal Tribunal for the ex-Yugoslavia for the past two years and has recently returned from observing the first two weeks of the Milosevic trial in The Hague.

Tuesday, March 12, 12:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street