Power and Resistance in the Americas: Transdisciplinary Perspective

Against different forms of violence, women are often at the forefront of movements resisting oppression and defending rights. In their search for justice in war crimes trials, women’s voices and narration are a critical part of the healing process for them as individuals but also for their communities, while also contributing to rewriting difficult pasts. Women are also at the forefront of movements that seek to defend collective and community rights, which are under threat by extractivist industries and illicit economies with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the state. Caring and caring practices, usually associated with women and their domestic worlds, thus assume a public dimension, as women become protagonists of movements to defend human rights, communities, and territories. With cases from Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, and other Latin American countries, this is an invitation to think together from different disciplinary perspectives on issues related to resistance and power, women and territories, displacements and politics.

ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS

Jo-Marie Burt is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. At Mason, she has served as director of Latin American studies, co-director of the Center for Global Studies, and associate chair for undergraduate studies. She is an affiliate faculty in global affairs, Latin American studies, conflict analysis and resolution, and women and gender studies. Burt is also a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a leading human rights research and advocacy organization. Most recently she served as the President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

María Eugenia Ulfe is senior professor and researcher in Anthropology at the department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is Honorary Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga and Honorary Professor in the School of Arts, Media, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia (2022-2027). She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group Memory and Democracy at PUCP. She was Program Co-Chair of LASA Congress in Bogotá, Colombia, in June 2024, and leading organizer of the VIII Congress Memories in Transit of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) at PUCP in July 2024. With Ximena Málaga Sabogal, she published the book Reparando Mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos (PUCP, 2021), which received an honorary mentioned by the Peru Section of LASA Book Price Flora Tristán (2022).

MODERATOR

Javier Guerrero, Professor, Princeton University and President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

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