Reconciliation and Resistance: Literatures and Cultures of Human Rights

This symposium, open to the ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ 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, ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½, 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).