Guatemala
“Achieving Justice: Gendered Violence, Displacement, and Legal Access in Guatemala and Oregon,” a roundtable
| April 13, 2017 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA)
Ford Lecture Hall
1430 Johnson Lane
Eugene, OR 97403
UO campus
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Organized by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group, this roundtable will explore how gendered violence in Guatemala leads indigenous women to flee the country as refugees to seek asylum in the United States. By putting experts on gendered violence in Central America into conversation with Oregon-based asylum attorneys, the roundtable will explore the legal reforms with greatest potential to provide effective justice for its survivors. The roundtable will address many critical questions such as: in countries with multiple forms of violence and weak rule of law, what resources are available to displaced women seeking justice and security? What obstacles to gendered justice in Guatemala push women to leave the country? Once in the U.S., what factors prevent women from seeking protection through asylum, and what resources help them create new systems of support and autonomy?
Speakers:
- Erin Beck, UO Department of Political Science
- Gabriela Martínez, UO School of Journalism and Communication
- Lynn Stephen, UO Department of Anthropology
- Vannia Glasinovic, U.S. Asylum Attorney
- Christopher Anders, U.S. Asylum Attorney
- Anna Ciesielski, U.S. Asylum Attorney
Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group, the Wayne Morse Center for Law & Politics, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
Note: This is a pre-conference event connected to the LALISA Conference: http://las.uoregon.edu/2016/12/12/2nd-lalisa-conference-april-13-15/
CLLAS Grantee Presentation: John Bedan, “Guatemala and the U.S. in the 1960s”
| May 18, 2017 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
Gerlinger 246
UO campus
Graduate Grantee Presentation: John Bedan
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that the Alliance for Progress would bring prosperity and democracy to Latin America. When the program ended seven years later, Guatemala had become a military-state designed to crush dissidents and communists. This study of US-Guatemalan relations during the 1960s traces the transformation of the Guatemalan state into a war-machine that would go on to commit numerous atrocities, culminating in genocide, over the course of the Cold War.
John Bedan is a graduate student in the UO Department of History.
Freedom Fighter | Stricken by refugees’ plight, anthropologist gets involved
Lynn Stephen, professor of anthropology and codirector of CLLAS, combines her research and the refugees’ stories into a powerful petition for political asylum. Read about her work as an expert witness for more than two-dozen refugees from Mexico and Guatemala in: Freedom Fighter | Cascade: University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences.
Documentary Screening: Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, produced and directed by Gabriela Martínez Escobar
| May 18, 2016 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Straub 156
2451 Onyx
UO campus
Documentary Screening: Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, produced and directed by Gabriela Martínez Escobar
Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala tells the story of Guatemala’s National Police Historical Archive intertwined with narratives of past human rights abuses and the dramatic effects they had on specific individuals and the nation as a whole. In addition, it highlights present-day efforts to preserve collective memories and bring justice and reconciliation to the country. TRT 54 min.
Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies, International Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History, Global Justice Program, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Crossings Institute.
From Silence to Memory: Archives and Human Rights in Guatemala and Beyond
| October 24, 2013 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Symposium, 3 p.m.
Browsing Rm, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St., UO campus
Documentary Screening 6 p.m.
221 Allen Hall
Upcoming Events to Feature Book and Documentary that Emerged from Collaborative Work in the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala
The English translation of a Spanish-language report on an archive documenting human rights abuses in Guatemala and a new documentary film on the same subject will help raise awareness of human rights around the world. The translation and film are the result of a collaboration between academic units at the University of Oregon and Guatemala’s Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN). With funding support from the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), and other campus units, two UO faculty members, Carlos Aguirre and Gabriela Martínez, headed up the projects for the UO. › Continue reading
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