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.

Guatemalan Youth: Creating a Culture of Resistance
Speaking Tour

Jennifer Waleska Coguox Barrios is a young mother and member of Iqui Balam, a popular youth theater group from Guatemala City that creatively addresses social and political issues through theater, dance and hip hop music. Rogelio Hernández is a teacher and the secretary of the board of directors of the Student Association of Santa Maria Tzejá, a scholarship organization formed by indigenous youth from returned refugee communities in the Ixcan, Guatemala. Both guests will share their experience of community organization, resistance and cultural survival in times of globalization, state violence and community displacement.
This tour is an attempt to make connections for a future delegation of Guatemalan youth to travel to the Bay Area to participate in a cultural and political exchange.

Presentation in Spanish with English translation.

Tuesday, February 25, 4:00-6:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room

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Charles Hale
“Activist Research v. Cultural Critique:
Law, Anthropology and Black / Indigenous Land Rights Struggles in Neoliberal Central America”

Charles Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994) and co-editor (with Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque) of Memorias del Mestizaje: Cultura y Política en Centroamérica, 1920 al Presente (forthcoming).

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology

PLEASE NOTE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE
Monday, March 17, 4:00–6:00 pm
Room 575, McCone Hall (map)

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Amy Ross
"The Myrna Mack Case"

Amy Ross is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include the spatiality of violence, geographies of justice, international institutions and the global civil society. Her book, The Body of the Truth: Truth Commissions in Guatemala and South Africa, is forthcoming.

Monday, March 31, 12:00-2:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room

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