CGIS South S-215
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Apr. 24, 2024, 3 – 5 p.m.

In Mexico, we are confronting one of the world's worst human rights crises: The disappearance of more than 112,000 people. Decades of violence and government impunity have transformed the country into a giant cemetery, filled with clandestine mass graves. Across the nation, mothers search deserts and barren fields for signs of their loved ones, while the faces of the disappeared loom large on posters and banners in cities from north to south. Faced with these urgent challenges, it has become necessary to recognize the different kinds of expertise and experiences that are available for documenting, denouncing and resisting the practice of disappearance.

The construction of political alliances to confront this crisis requires building spaces for listening and dialogue among diverse social actors, including academia, the relatives of disappeared persons, human rights activists, journalists and public servants. We want to create this space for interdisciplinary dialogue in which different social actors that have approached the problem of disappearance from distinct perspectives and practices can share their knowledge and challenges as we search for new ways to tackle this crisis.

Gazette Classification: Diversity and Inclusion, Ethics, Humanities, Social Sciences, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS)
Speaker(s): Karla Quintana Osuna, National Commissioner for the Search of Disappeared Persons in Mexico (2019-2023) and International Expert for the Special Peace Jurisdiction in Colombia., Gaudencia Margarita "Magui" Garcia Hernández, Colectivo Regresando a Casa Morelos. Oscar Lopez Gibson, 2024 Radcliffe Fellow., Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Professor and senior researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico City.
More info: drclas.harvard.edu…