Politics of Memory:
Guatemala's National Police Archive

Screening of "Granito: How To Nail a Dictator"

Q+A with filmmaker Peter Kinoy

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

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

• Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
• Susan M. Reverby, Professor of History and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
• Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj, Executive Director, Support Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples

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

Lunch in Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

Registration required

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

Panel 2: Technology, Access to Information, and Democracy

• Virgilio Álvarez Aragón, Director, The Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Guatemala
• Patrick Ball, Chief Scientist and Vice President, Human Rights Programs, Benetech
• Kate Doyle, Analyst, National Security Archive

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

Break

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

• Anna Carla Ericastilla, Director, General Archive of Central America

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

"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:

• Gustavo Meoño, Coordinator, Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala
• Anna Carla Ericastilla, Director, General Archive of Central America
• Fred Heath, Vice Provost and Director, UT Libraries
• Steve Leslie, Provost, University of Texas at Austin

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

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