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9:30am6:30pm
Politics of Memory: Guatemala's National Police Archive

CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)

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.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/12/02/12355/