Organized by the
Latin American Studies Program
in cooperation with the
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics,
the Savage Endowment for
International Relations and Peace,
the Office of the President,
the College of Arts and Sciences,
the proposed Center for Latino/a and
Latin American Studies, and the
UO Latin American Law Students Association
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K e y n o t e sS p e a k e r s
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
7 p.m.
EMU Ballroom
Welcoming Remarks
Linda Brady, Senior Vice-President and Provost, University of Oregon
Keynote address
Arturo Escobar, Anthropology, University of North Carolina and Wayne Morse Center Chair of Law and Politics:
"Left Turn? Right Turn? Where is Latin America Going?"
Friday, February 1, 2008
EMU Fir Room
9-11 a.m.
Panel 1: Whose truth? Reassessing Truth Commissions' Reports
Chair: Leonardo García-Pabón, Romance Languages
Elizabeth Lira, psychologist and researcher in the Center of Ethics at Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado, and Brian Loveman, San Diego State University:
"The Chilean Road to Reconciliation: A Change in the Route, 1990-2007"
Edelberto Torres Rivas, Director of the Central American Social Sciences Program and Secretary General of FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Guatemala):
“La verdad no es una comisión sino un desafío: Historia de la crueldad política en Guatemala” ("Truth is not a commission but a challenge: A History of political cruelty in Guatemala")
Kimberly Theidon, Anthropology, Harvard University:
“The Truths of ‘Terrorists’: Post-War Stories in Peru”
11-1 p.m.
Panel 2: Battling for Memory: Alternative and Non-official Accounts of Violence
Chair: Robert Haskett, History
Gabriela Martínez, Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon:
“The Mediations of Violence: Journalistic Photography in Post-War Peru"Pedro García-Caro, Romance Languages, University of Oregon:
“Confronting State Violence: The Tlatelolco Massacre in Cultural Memory”Cynthia Milton, History, University of Montreal:
“Images of Truth: Art as a Medium for Recounting Violence in Peru”
1-3 p.m.
Lunch break
3-5 p.m.
Panel 3: Political Prisoners: Literature, Testimony, and Survival
Chair: Amalia Gladhart, Romance Languages
Juan Armando Epple, Romance Languages, University of Oregon:
“The texture of Memory in Isla 10, by Sergio Bitar”
Hiber Conteris, University of Arizona:
“Literature at the Limit: Writing as a Survival Strategy”
Carlos Aguirre, History, University of Oregon:
“’Hay que inducir al genocidio’: The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Peru, June 1986”
5-5:30
Coffee break
5:30 p.m.
The Latin American Studies Program and the Wayne Morse Center present the 2008 Bartolomé de las Casas Lecture in Latin American Studies
Greg Grandin, History, New York University:
“Remembering Latin American’s Other ‘Transition to Democracy’”
Saturday, February 2, 2008
EMU Fir Room
10 a.m.-noon
Panel 4: Memory in Film and Documentary
Chair: Lise Nelson, Geography
Steve Stern, History, University of Wisconsin, Madison:
“Cinema of Truth: Staging Memory and the Human Rights Question in Chile, 1990-2004”
Michael Lazzara, Spanish, University of California, Davis:
“Guzmán’s Allende”
Susana Kaiser, Media Studies, University of San Francisco:
“Memory Shots: The Camera as Historian in Post-dictatorship Argentina"
12-2 p.m.
Lunch break
2-4 p.m.
Panel 5: Gender, Violence, and Human Rights in Present-Day Latin America
Chair: Analisa Taylor, Romance Languages
Deborah Weissman, Law, University of North Carolina:
“The Marketplace of Murder: Rethinking Gender Violence in Ciudad Juárez”Michele McKinley, Law, University of Oregon:
“Global Human Rights Conventions and Gender Violence Laws in Peru”Lynn Stephen, Anthropology, University of Oregon:
"Making Rights a Reality in the Oaxaca Rebellion"
Coffee break
4:30 p.m.
Keynote address
Arturo Arias, University of Texas, Austin:
"The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation"