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

Francisco Goldman
"The Bishop Gerardi Murder Case"

Since 1998, novelist Francisco Goldman has been reporting on the murder of the great human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi in Guatemala. To date, three military officers and a priest have been imprisoned for the crime, an unprecedented and still threatened conviction in Guatemala. Goldman’s particular emphasis has been on the young Church and human rights activists who carried out most of the investigation that led to the convictions.

Goldman’s journalism on the Bishop Gerardi case has been published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books; he will publish a book expanding on those pieces in 2005. His talk will be a first-hand, personal account.

Francisco Goldman is the author of two award-winning novels: The Long Night of White Chickens and The Ordinary. His novels have been published in 10 languages. In 2005 will publish a book, also with Grove, on the Bishop Gerardi murder case in Guatemala.

Monday, February 23, 4:00 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

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