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Schedule

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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Francis Auditorium (TNH 2.114), UT School of Law

5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Screening of "Granito: How To Nail a Dictator"

Q+A with filmmaker Peter Kinoy

Friday, December 2, 2011
Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306), UT School of Law

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Welcome & Introduction to the Archive

  • Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin
  • Gustavo Meoño, Coordinator, Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala

10:00 a.m. – 12:00pm

Panel 1: Interventions in Guatemala: Syphilis Infection, Military Aid, Development Assistance

Chair: Arturo Arias, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch in Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

Registration required

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Keynote Address: Archives, Memory, and Human Rights in Latin America

  • Steve Stern, Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Chair and Introduction: Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Panel 2: Technology, Access to Information, and Democracy

Chair: Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Break

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Keynote Address: Guatemala's Archives and Citizens' Right to Memory and Truth

Introduction: Ariel Dulitzky, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Human Rights Clinic, University of Texas at Austin

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

"Unveiling" of UT's AHPN Digital Archive

  • Christian Kelleher, Archivist, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection and Project Manager, Human Rights Documentation Initiative, UT Libraries, University of Texas at Austin

Remarks:

Chair: Charles Hale, Chair for Western Hemispheric Trade Studies, Department of Anthropology and Director, Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies and the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin

6:30 p.m.

Reception in Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)
Hosted by School of Law

Registration required

  • Welcome by Lawrence Sager, John Jeffers Research Chair in Law, Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair, and Dean, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin