Events Calendar

On September 20, 2011, the Pentagon officially certified repeal of the U.S. military's 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT), which barred openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from active military service. Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization dedicated to bringing about full LGBT equality within the military, has provided free and direct legal assistance to more than 10,000 servicemembers affected by discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Danny Hernandez, SLDN Communications and Development Assistant will speak about outstanding legal issues still impacting LGBTQ servicemembers after DADT's repeal.

Questions to be discussed may include: - What nondiscrimination and harassment protections exist for out servicemembers? - In states that allow same-sex marriage, do any protections, services, or support for same-sex spouses exist? - What obstacles exist for gay and lesbian veterans discharged under DADT to return to the military? - If a servicemember was dishonorably discharged under DADT, may they upgrade their discharge paperwork after repeal? - What about open transgender service after DADT's repeal?

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. University of Texas School of Law (street map: http://g.co/maps/4v8wa) Charles I. Francis Auditorium, room 2.114 (building map: http://www.utexas.edu/law/about/maps/) Free food will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/22/12873/

Please join us for a screening of "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator," an award-winning documentary film that chronicles Guatemala’s internal armed conflict, and subsequent efforts to bring the perpetrators of massive human rights violations during that period to justice. Peter Kinoy, one of the filmmakers, will participate in a question and answer session following the film.

This event is part of the "Politics of Memory: Guatemala's National Police Archive" conference, which will continue all day on Friday, December 2, in the Eidman Courtroom at the UT School of Law.

For more information on Granito, please visit:

http://skylightpictures.com/films/granito

For more information on the conference, please visit:

http://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/guatemala/index.php

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/12/01/12932/

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, and University of Texas Libraries are pleased to host a conference on December 2nd entitled "Politics of Memory: Guatemala's National Police Archive." This interdisciplinary conference will celebrate the unveiling of a UT-hosted digital archive that will serve as an on-line digital repository for millions of documents from the Historic Archive of the National Police of Guatemala. The conference will consider how use of the Archive has helped to deepen understanding of Guatemala's history, and to advance human rights, both crucial to the strengthening of Guatemala's embattled democracy.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/12/02/12355/