Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Interesting lecture to check out


On Wednesday, October 25th, Victoria Sanford, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY, will give a talk titled: "From Genocide to Feminicidio: Impunity and Human Rights in 21st Century Guatemala" in Rocky 200 at 5:00 p.m. Her book, Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), has received much acclaim. Dr. Sanford was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute on Violence and Survival at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has been a Bunting Peace Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, a Rockefeller Fellow, a Fulbright-Hays Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Sanford has worked with Maya refugees since 1986. She co-authored the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation's report to the Commission for Historical Clarification and is also the author of Violencia y Genocidio en Guatemala (2003).

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