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Lent Term 2020  CLAS Open Seminars Mondays 5.15pm

SALVADOR ALLENDE MEMORIAL LECTURE

Friday 14 February, 2 -  6pm, SG2 Ground Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Bureaucracies after death: the aftermath of forced disappearance in dictatorship and democracy
This Salvador Allende Memorial Lecture will consist of a case study followed by a lecture on major themes under discussion among forensic anthropologists working in the wake of the many atrocities which the world has been witnessing.

2pm
Micro-technologies of disappearance by State bureaucracy: an archaeological perspective about necropolitics in dictatorship and democracy in Brazil (abstract)
Márcia Lika Hattori  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship (MSCA), Institute of Heritage Sciences – Incipit & Spanish National Research Council – CSIC
Discussant: Dacia Viejo-Rose Cambridge Heritage Research Centre & Lecturer in Heritage and the Politics of the Past, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

3.30 – 4pm   Refreshments

The politics of death: bodies, rights and memory in post-conflict Peru (abstract)
José Pablo Baraybar  Forensic Anthropologist, Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) & Trans-regional Forensic Coordinator for Migration in Europe, International Committee of the Red Cross, (ICRC) Paris
Discussant: Cath Collins Director of the Observatorio de Justicia Transicional, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) & Professor of Transitional Justice, Ulster University, Northern Ireland

5.30 – 6pm   Final comments
Followed by wine Reception at CLAS. All Welcome.This event is free but please register here for catering purposes.

Lunchtime Seminar Tuesday 18 February, 12.45 - 2pm 
Coffee is not Forever: Converging Economic and Ecological Challenges to Coffee Production in Latin America since 1990
Stuart McCook, History, University of Guelph, Canada

Book Launch Thursday 5 March, 5.30 - 7pm - POSTPONED
Touched Bodies
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London
J.E.Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, 9 West Road

Lunchtime Seminar Wednesday 11 March, 12.45 - 2pm - POSTPONED
T.B.C.
Alejandra Díaz de León, Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
CLAS Seminar Room 204, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building

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