Reconciliation and Resistance: Literatures and Cultures of Human Rights
This symposium, open to the èצӰÏñ community, explores the aftermath ofÌýhumanÌýrightsÌýviolations in culture, as well as the effects of cultural production on law and policy. With a non-exclusive emphasis on Latin America and an interdisciplinary law and literature focus, the symposium brings together a distinguished group of authors and scholars.
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FeaturingÌýEduardo Halfon, GuatemalanÌýwriter, Prix Roger-Callois 2015, author ofÌýThe Polish Boxer,Ìý2012;ÌýCarmen Boullosa, MexicanÌýwriter, Guggenheim Fellow, author ofÌýTexas,Ìý2013;ÌýJorge González,ÌýTinker Visiting Professor at CLAS, Law School at the Universidad de los Andes,ÌýBogotá;ÌýJo-Marie Burt,Ìýpolitical scientist at George Mason U, author ofÌýSilencing Civil Society:ÌýPolitical Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru. Palgrave, 2007;ÌýLuis van Isschot,ÌýUniversity of Toronto. Author ofÌýTheÌýSocial Origins ofÌýHumanÌýRights: Protesting Political Violence in Colombia’s OilÌýCapital, 1919-2010, 2015;ÌýDavid Palumbo-Liu,ÌýComparative Literature, èצӰÏñ, founding director of the TeachingÌýHumanÌýRightsÌýCollaboratory;ÌýFernando Rosenberg,ÌýBrandeis U, author ofÌýAfterHumanÌýRights:ÌýLiterature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America (1910-2010). PittsburghÌýUP, 2016; andÌýYogita Goyal, UCLA, author ofÌýRomance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature.ÌýCambridge UP, 2010.
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Hosted byÌýthe Department of Iberian andÌýLatin American Cultures; the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; the Law School; the Dean’sÌýOffice; the Center for LatinÌýAmerican Studies; the Program in Modern Thought and Literature; and the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the graduate studentÌýcoordinator,ÌýCallie Ward (ILAC), at ceward [at] stanford.edu (ceward[at]stanford[dot]edu), or faculty organizer, Prof.ÌýHéctor Hoyos (ILAC), at hoyos [at] stanford.edu (hoyos[at]stanford[dot]edu).